Schlagwort: thermal printer
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Control a thermal printer with your Arduino
Reading Time: 2 minutesYou would probably recognize a thermal printer as the thing that spits out receipts at a cash register. They offer a two key advantages: they do not require ink cartridges and they are compact. But because they print by applying heat to special paper that darkens when hot, they have low resolution…
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Build Demolition Man’s verbal morality ticketing machine
Reading Time: 7 minutesIn the 1993 action movie Demolition Man, Sylvester Stallone stars as a 1990s cop transported to the near-future. Technology plays a central role in the film, often bemusing the lead character. In a memorable scene, he is repeatedly punished by a ticketing machine for using bad language (a violation of the verbal…
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SelfieBot: taking and printing photos with a smile
Reading Time: 3 minutesDoes your camera giggle and smile as it takes your photo? Does your camera spit out your image from a thermal printer? No? Well, Sophy Wong’s SelfieBot does! Raspberry Pi SelfieBot: Selfie Camera with a Personality SelfieBot is a project Kim and I originally made for our booth at Seattle Mini Maker…
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Automatic mazes with Raspberry Pi and recursive backtracking
Reading Time: 3 minutesEngineerish is back with another Raspberry Pi–based project that you didn’t know you needed until now. PRINT MAZES WITH RASPBERRY PI Don’t already have a device around your home that, at the press of a button, prints something cool? Build one! Mine prints randomly generated mazes but why stop there? Thermal printer:…
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Randomly generated, thermal-printed comics
Reading Time: 3 minutesPython code creates curious, wordless comic strips at random, spewing them from the thermal printer mouth of a laser-cut body reminiscent of Disney Pixar’s WALL-E: meet the Vomit Comic Robot! The age of the thermal printer! Thermal printers allow you to instantly print photos, data, and text using a few lines of…
