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I did endless research into the sciences branching from the receipt printer component from thermochromic chemicals to electric heating coil science and advanced custom control circuit semiconductors.

I theorized and built both re-writable receipt paper and a thermochromic coil grid screen. I tested both for their abilities, but I solved neither could ever actually function as a computer screen.

I used nichrome foil to make a prototype to prove the specs of what semiconductor manufacturing machines could make. At the end of my experiments, I was sad because I solved that electric heating coils would use 2 Amps of power regardless of if they were 20 millimeters or 20 nanometers in size. This would make a great computer screen for the 1940s, but it would never be cheaper than the LCD. I talked to the AI for months, and on no day in any conversation did it tell me a heating coil would need high amps regardless of its size. It kept thinking the thermochromic screen would work and cost 1/5 the price of an LCD. A thermochromic screen could not use transistors of nanometer sizes. Each pixel, even if the pixel was in micrometers of size would need 2 Amps of power, which would need big size transistors, transistors way bigger than a pixel which would make the design impossible for a TFT pixel grid display. A 1024x768, 15 inch screen of electric heating coils and thermochromic powder would be possible and make a magical computer display, but the control circuits would take up tons of space. I pictured stacking many large circuit boards into one big cube and putting it into a black NextStation Cube or Cube of Mecca. This was very exciting to me that nobody on earth had ever designed a thermochromic high resolution screen using electroless plating nickel or semiconductor manufacturing depositing of metals and compounds to then have a 15 inch LCD flat style screen with a huge control box filled with nearly a million large size transistors.

My re-writable receipt paper would need to have thick layers of the thermochromic powder to have high heat retention. A paper thin layer on my custom paper prototypes would only hold print for less than one second, which would not make a good computer screen. It would be hard to make a paper that is perfectly rational feeling with thick layers of thermochromic powder. I made one and ran it through a custom receipt printer, and it held print for about 10 seconds. It was very messy, and I could not solve a way to make a clean version of this paper. I made many dozens of re-writable receipt paper prototypes from unique mixtures of adhesives, paints, thermochromic powder to different backing materials from papers to plastics and foil. I decided that this would probably not be possible. I knew that there are millions of materials and scientists who if given a billion dollars might be able to make re-writable receipt paper for a thermal element receipt printer, but I would never be able make that happen. I also thought nobody would ever look into making something like that, not a decade ago and not a decade from now. I gave up on this, and I was right because a few months later, I solved to make a custom UV LCD panel for a magic UV Paper Scroll Display. Mitsubishi made re-writable receipt paper a long time ago, but it would only last up to 500 re-writes and was expensive. It would not work for my free computer screen concept. My goal was a paper that could last tens of thousands of re-writes. The UV photochromic powder I used to make my UV Paper Screen said it lasts tens of thousands of color transitions. This would make a UV Paper Display computer a thing nearly as magical as a real magic lamp. Maybe it is that exact thing... The pocket computer could also be a magic lamp.

Simplest Thermochromic Screen Example YouTube Video ReWritable Receipt Paper Rough Prototype Youtube Video