Work on whitepaper as of tonight

docs/whitepaper/README.md

@@ -7,18 +7,55 @@ author:
   affiliation: sixteenmillimeter.com
   email: hi@mmcwilliams.com
 abstract: |
-    We propose a small footprint contact printer for copying 16mm negative to print stock.
+    This paper introduces a design for a small-footprint contact printer for copying 16mm negatives to print stock.
-    This design can be manufactured using 3D printing and assembled using hobbyist electronic components, metric bolts and aluminum extrusion.
+    This design can be manufactured using 3D printing and assembled using hobbyist electronic components, metric bolts and standardized aluminum extrusion.
-
+    All of the design documentation, models for manufacturing and software are to be released freely and openly for public consumption.
+    It aims to fill a need for small-scale production capability presented by artist-run film labs and individual filmmakers who are working with analog motion picture film.
 bibliography: sources.bib
 csl: citation_style.csl
 ---
 
 # Introduction
 
+The contact printer as a tool for filmmaking 
+
+# Motivations
 
 
-## References
+
+The use of 16mm film and other small gauge formats has reached a new equilibrium where it is no longer used in mid-to-high budget productions aiming for distribution and many duplicate prints.
+Large production companies still use analog movie film as a capture medium but a vast majority of them go to scan.
+Filmmakers that make prints for projection are a different population of people than 100, 50 or even 30 years ago--they make shorter films, they use more alternate techiques and they are working with more limited resources.
+Creating a contact printer that is useful to and usable for artists working *now* means acknowledging that they work at a smaller scale and with different requirements.
+
+Contact printers for working with shorter lengths of film and with a small footprint have been made previously, but not for many years.
+
+# Design Philosophy
+
+The RepRap project [@reprap-philosophy] and 
+
+The RepRap project is not a perfect foundation on which to base the entirety of the design of this contact printer.
+The conclusion drawn by Adrian Bower--an engineer, not a philosopher or historian--that Marxism provides a correct diagnosis of Capital but it's solution is the "all-time worst-idea in human history" [@reprap-philosophy] is both ahistorical and works against the entire purpose of the project.
+Contact printing, as a means of film production, benefits more people by shifting from a mode limited to a class of professional film lab operators to a more accessible capability available to artists and artist-run film labs at a sub-industrial scale.
+
+
+
+
+# The Contact Printer
+
+## The Drive Motor
+
+## The Lamp
+
+## The Takeup Motors
+
+## The Electronics
+
+## The Firmware
+
+
+
+### References
 
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 refs: |

docs/whitepaper/notes.txt

@@ -11,4 +11,7 @@ https://ian-partridge.com/uhler_contact.html
 https://collections.eastman.org/objects/509964/uhler-cine-printer
 
 http://www.brianpritchard.com/FAOL/contents/2604200faol/Foncd/TEXTS/sect_8/contactpridx8.html
- - Types of contact printers
+ - Types of contact printers
+
+ That, as we enjoy great advantages from the inventions of others, we should be glad of an opportunity to serve others by any invention of ours; and this we should do freely and generously.
+-Benjamin Franklin, Autobiography

docs/whitepaper/sources.bib

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  title={Contact Printers},
  url={http://www.brianpritchard.com/FAOL/contents/2604200faol/Foncd/TEXTS/sect_8/contactpridx8.html},
  urldate={2025-02-20}
+}
+
+@online{reprap-philosophy,
+ author={Adrian Bower},
+ title={The Self-replicating Rapid Prototyper—Manufacturing for the Masses},
+ url={https://reprap.org/wiki/PhilosophyPage},
+ urldate={2025-02-20}
+}
+
+@book{recipes-for-disaster,
+ author={Helen Hill},
+ title={RECIPES FOR DISASTER: a handcrafted film cookbooklet},
+ url={https://www.filmlabs.org/docs/recipes_for_disaster_hill.pdf},
+ year={2004},
+ address={New Orleans, Louisiana}
 }