… but this one’s a little odd. Tech Insider reports on sequestering soot on paper.
[Anirudh] Sharma built a demo device that can pull soot from a burning candle and accumulate it in a modified syringe, which is then used to fill a modified HP inkjet cartridge with a mixture of the soot, vodka, and olive oil. When the cartridge is integrated with an Arduino ink shield, this decidedly low-tech ink can be used to print at a 96 dpi resolution. …
I’m seeing contraptions for positioning this device at the top of chimneys all over Minnesota. From Anirudh Sharma’s website comes this charming bit:
I was once day dreaming about the awesome days we spent back in Bikaner, a small city in the west of Rajasthan. It reminded me of the heat, travelling in sweat inducing autorickshaws while we used to do our experiments with building our Multi-touch table with low tech techniques. The month of June there was full of sweat, with unburnt smoke rising from unending tur-tur-ing of autorickshaws blackening our skin.
I can imagine that, having putted around Pune, India one day a few years back.
In all fairness, they are not positioning this as a source of sequestration. Sharma says he was just having fun.
(h/t Derek Markham @ TreeHugger.com)
