exciting-io/printer
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Tools for exploring the possibilities of "internet of things" printing.
7 mentions on Hacker News by 3 people: 0 stories, 7 comments · first 2012-04-12 · latest 2023-10-19
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…And James has an open-source project here that you might be interested in: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer The rest of us don't have hardware experience. Four of us can code, one of us is on more of the UI side of things, and
comment by mrshawnliu · 2023-10-19 · in "We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle" -
The code for the guestbook is not open source, but it's built on this open-source platform: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer
comment by lazyatom · 2023-10-19 · in "We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle" -
…will tell you). I made my own version of the little printer based on the open source plans here: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-... It's really easy to get up and running and interfacing with it is simple. I…
comment by zizzer · 2014-09-09 · in Berg is shutting down -
…the HTTP client code on a Raspberry Pi than it is on the Arduino! If you look at the Arduino code ( https://github.com/freerange/printer/blob/master/printer.ino ), all it does is download a stream of bytes, doing some very rudimentary…
comment by lazyatom · 2012-04-12 · in Printer: an open source kit for exploring internet-of-things printing -
…http://www.sparkfun.com/products/10438 http://proto-pic.co.uk/thermal-printer/ See https://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-pr... for more information...
comment by lazyatom · 2012-04-12 · in Printer: an open source kit for exploring internet-of-things printing -
Instructions to build your own are at https://github.com/freerange/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-pr... along with a load more information about the distributed architecture of the system. It's very easy to build a content service for…
comment by lazyatom · 2012-04-12 · in Hello, Printer (now with instructions to build your own) -
You can poke around the source on github: http://github.com/freerange/printer There's also some fairly comprehensive documentation on the github wiki, including an architectural overview, and building your own printer:…
comment by lazyatom · 2012-04-12 · in Printer: an open source kit for exploring internet-of-things printing