"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle"

Re:"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you... by fullstackchris on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:11PM (#37946386)

I've been talking with a few friends as well about forming a group quite similar to this - can I ask how it went or what was the initial motivation for everyone to finally do it? Are you all having backgrounds in software or do other people on the team have engineering / hardware / other focuses? Absolutely love stuff like this - subscribed to the newsletter! Cheers!

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Re:"We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you... by mrshawnliu on Thursday October 19, 2023 @02:37PM (#37946752)

Hi there, you can read more about the technical background here: https://guestbook.goodenough.us/info

James Adam was the genius behind the whole project. There's been efforts to make networked thermal printers in the past, like the Berg printer: https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/

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 I do some doodles for the team.

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