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This device would consist of:
A wax reservoir
containing translucent wax
Four pigment
reservoirs
wax melter/mixer with pigment
injection
A low powered press for forcing the
wax through a hole.
A single pixel/24 color
display
A
numerical keypad with a "make it" button
A
simple
internal computer control device
A simple label
printer capable of printing out the new crayon's
color in
RRGGBB format, with two additional notations for
how
dark the new crayon is.
A label hopper
containing
labels with a water-activated glue strip down one
side.
The purpose and combination of these
items is,
I think, obvious.
edited
As [scad_mientist] said...
http://video.pbs.org/video/1324143164/
[normzone, Oct 03 2014]
Crayon_20Printer
[calum, Oct 05 2014]
Solid Ink Printer
http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solid_ink
[senatorjam, Oct 05 2014]
[link]
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Instead of one wax reservoir and four pigments, why
not just have four reservoirs of coloured waxes (red,
green, blue and black)? |
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Ah, hang on - white will be a problem. |
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I thought this would use 3D printer technology to
allow making a crayon in any shape. |
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As described your idea is just a highly automated
version of the Crayola Crayon Maker. |
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You mean this is not a plotter that uses Crayons? Oh...too bad. |
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The Crayola Crayon Maker is not good. It is small, slow and makes little crayons with inferior molds. What is needed is a teflon coated oven pan with crayon shaped molds for serious crayon recycling. I am so surprised that molds of this sort are not sold. Lots of teachers would recycle their crayons. |
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//Instead of one wax reservoir and four pigments,
why not just have four reservoirs of coloured waxes
(red, green, blue and black)?// |
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The addition of a white wax would solve this
problem. I like your idea better. |
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And I thought this would be about a printer that USES crayons.... |
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Ditto normzone and Vernon |
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Got three buns for you...is there like a paypal for buns? |
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Waves a hearty hello to [senatorjam], your link comes very
close to this. But a substantial idea anyway. Hey where you
been jam man? |
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I thought that was Granola... |
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Looking at the "solid" ink printer blurb....it's a big girly fib. It melts the ink to print and needs a vacuum pump to debung ink from the printhead at the end of a print run. |
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Crayon, crayons, crayons! |
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