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'Right now we are printing the light, but we are going to be putting that back in the hands of the people.'īlaine Brownell, AIA, is a regularly featured columnist whose stories appear on this website each week. His views and conclusions are not necessarily those of ARCHITECT magazine nor of the American Institute of Architects.But he’s already figuring it out. That’s because Rohinni has developed a form of what it calls Lightpaper. It’s a way to print lighting and apply it to nearly any surface, in any shape, and for any situation. It’s a kind of stunning proposition that reminds me of the first time I heard about 3-D printing.

“All we know is that we’re trying to unlock the ability to create light.” “With Lightpaper it’s more of a platform of light that we don’t even know how it’s going to be used,” explains Smoot. In its current state, Lightpaper is manufactured by mixing ink and tiny LEDs together and printing them out on a conductive layer. That object is then sandwiched between two other layers and sealed. The tiny diodes are about the size of a red blood cell, and randomly dispersed on the material. When current runs through the diodes, they light up. The promise of thin lighting has been simmering for a while, thanks largely to breakthroughs in OLED technology.

LIGHTPAPER ROHINNI TV

Rohinni isn’t interested in the entrenched TV market.īut nothing viable has come to market, and Lightpaper is much thinner than OLED-which has been able to get TVs down to a fraction of an inch thick-and is lower cost and has a life-span of around 20 years, like LEDs. The company would rather put the technology to use where it can make a big difference soon everything from illuminating a logo on a mobile phone to providing headlights for a car. A few companies are already working on Lightpaper implementations, but Smoot wouldn’t name any. It would even be possible to replace existing lamps by simply printing Rohinni’s mix directly on to lamp shades, or the interior of ceiling units.īelow you’ll find a video about LightPaper.“The design process is something that can be done almost in an afternoon,” Smoot says. Imagine being able to slap a couple of LightPaper patches on the top of your desk when you needed a little more illumination in the evenings, or combing the process with 3D printed objects to build glowing objets d’art. Potential applications are endless, particularly if, as shown on the Rohinni website, the technology can be made to print on a variety of materials other than paper. Right now, just beyond the basic development stage of creating LightPaper, Rohinni is in charge of what is printed, on what, and where, but that will change. LightPaper takes the “guts” of LED lighting, mixes it with ink, and prints out the results on a substrate. A year or so into their new roles, Andy and Cody realized they still had that itch to continue to do what they were made for, so they left Synaptics and returned to the drawing board.”

This caught the attention of Synaptics, a world leader in computer touchpads and touch screens … Synaptics acquired Pacinian, and before you knew it, they had new titles at Synaptics. “Before Cody and Andy launched Rohinni, they successfully built the world’s thinnest touch type-able keyboard as a part of their first venture, Pacinian. The founders of the company, Cody Peterson and Andrew Huska, previously worked on other high-tech projects. Rohinni has developed the next wave of LED lighting.

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