Comments on: Microprinter

By: James Adam

James Adam — Fri, 20 Apr 2012 22:09:03 +0000

I feel exactly the same way; I want something that’s stable and reliable (and somebody else’s responsibility), but I also want to be able to act on any inspiration that I get from it :)

By: Wired - Your Twitter Feed as Newspaper: A Look at the Tiny Printer Trend

Wired - Your Twitter Feed as Newspaper: A Look at the Tiny Printer Trend — Thu, 19 Apr 2012 23:00:35 +0000

[...] work started a chain reaction of mods, including Roo Reynolds who thought that “the soft sound printing and the ‘clunk’ of the auto-cutting blade will be a [...]

By: Roo

Roo — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 11:44:54 +0000

Layers of history here. Matt Webb, one of BERG's principals, wrote about an idea for a social letterbox in 2006. We all swooned. Tom Taylor, inspired by the idea and inventive chap that he is, saw a cheap way to make it happen. During PaperCamp in January 2009, Tom showed off his Microprinter project and shared the source for his Arduino sketch. A couple of weeks later and I'd found and bought the exact same hardware, and soon shared my own code including a Ruby library. Tom's project has inspired dozens of people to hack their own hardware, often using the same hardware. Many of them are listed on the microprinter wiki. One of the most impressive efforts comes from James Adam, who has been quietly beavering away on the Go Free Range Printer platform. It's an impressive bit of work and definitely worth taking a look at. The good people at BERG obviously continued to think about doing the whole thing properly as a gorgeous bit of consumer electronics and, at the end of November 2011, announced their Little Printer. Frankly, I expect I will want a Little Printer and something I can hack with.

By: eevilmidget

eevilmidget — Thu, 05 Apr 2012 10:11:25 +0000

Hi Roo,

I thought it was this!
http://bergcloud.com/littleprinter/

Rina

By: Franklin

Franklin — Mon, 04 Jul 2011 16:05:00 +0000

Has anyone tried to hack printing calculators? They are much cheaper than the thermal printers.

http://www.canon.co.uk/for_home/product_finder/calculators/portable_printing/p1-dtsc/index.aspx

By: Making the Physical from the Digital « Random Hacks

Making the Physical from the Digital « Random Hacks — Sun, 25 Apr 2010 17:00:42 +0000

[...] or other retail outlet – and inspired by the work of Tom Taylor at Bookcamp/Papercamp09 and Roo Reynolds, I had already worked out how to print to it (I’ve added instructions to the microprinter [...]

By: Microprinter RSS Arduino Driven « Arduinian Tales

Microprinter RSS Arduino Driven « Arduinian Tales — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 12:38:48 +0000

[...] notification, using a repurposed receipt printer connected to the web”. Using this and the works of others as inspiration, I set about making my own Internet connected [...]

By: Microprinter Sparklines - Roo Reynolds

Microprinter Sparklines - Roo Reynolds — Sat, 18 Jul 2009 09:46:26 +0000

[...] quite a few of us to play with printers, I’ve been seeing what I can get mine to do. So far: barcodes were pretty quick. More recently, daily digests, twitter updates and even printing an entire a [...]

By: Roo

Roo — Mon, 11 May 2009 21:59:05 +0000

According to the manual (see the link from the microprinter wiki) it's user-selectable in hardware. The default, which worked for me, was 9600 baud.

By: oscar

oscar — Mon, 11 May 2009 17:38:57 +0000

Hello i just recovered a CBM printer . Assuming it works in serial mode what is the speed (4800 , 9600,….)