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Out of curiosity, do you think this technology could be used for tattoos? I've never used a 3d printer so I don't know all the technical details, but it seems like it would be possible to provide a 3d image of your arm and have the syringe create a tattoo one poke at a time.


Well, current CNC machines can use a touch probe to pretty accurately map the height of a given surface:

http://community.carbide3d.com/t/using-ugs-probe-helper/8823...

That approach could be used to build a useful representation of the arm/body area needing work.

The actual injection bit I have no idea though. Maybe mount ing a real tattoo gun and hooking up the enable/disable spindle pins to it would work.

Seems like some people have already been down a similar path before:

https://www.instructables.com/id/3D-PRINTER-X-TATTOO-MACHINE...

https://makezine.com/2016/08/09/are-robots-the-future-of-the...




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