Connect a thermal printer to vintage Commodore computers using the IEC bus @ smdprutser.nl Since a couple of months I have fascination for vintage computers like Commodore or Nintendo. I usually balance out my daily routine of monitoring server nodes and backend routing for the best bitcoin casinos with purely analog or retro-computing side projects […]
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Pi Zero print server
Tom writes, “I can’t believe it! I actually finished a project the same day that I started it. A while back I won a Raspberry Pi Zero W in a promotional competition for Zipcar, and today I set it up as a wireless print server.” More details on Magic Smoke blog.
Paint Machine, a printer that prints small bitmaps on the street
Alex Weber has posted a new project on building a DIY Paint Machine, he writes: Here is my latest creature, the Paint Machine. It’s a machine the prints simple bitmaps with spray chalk on the street or sidewalk. For a large-scale project like a home exterior painting Edmonton, it is advised that you hire a professional painting […]
Hacking a 3D printer into a tattoo machine
Here’s a cool instructable for a 3D printer tattoo machine: In october 2013, a famous design school in Paris, ENSCI les Ateliers, hosted a workshop organised by the French Ministry of culture. The idea was to use images, videos and sound fallen in the national pubic domain and use them in a sort of “Mashup”. The event […]
Open Electronics: Contest 3Drag/K8200
Open Electronics is launching a new contest for people who bought the printer 3Drag or K8200: Thus here is this 3Drag Competition, reserved for those who possess a 3Drag or a Velleman K8200 3D printer (based on the same design). Nowadays it’s plenty of this machines: in fact, thanks to the collaboration with Velleman, the […]
UV resin based mUVe 1 3D Printer source files released
UV resin based mUVe 3D Printer releases source files: The mUVe 1 3D Printer, an open UV resin based 3D printer was successfully funded on indiegogo back in April. As estimated, the first Ultimate kit was shipped out on Jun.20. Last weekend the team has completed building and shipping all of the Ultimate kits. Meanwhile […]
DIY stereolithography 3D Printer
Andy built a 3D stereolithography printer, and provided instructions on how to build your own. Resin is cured in layers using a UV laser. A linear actuator moves the stage down slightly after each layer is hardend, slowly building the 3D object in layers. Check out a time-laps video below the fold. Via the contact […]
Thermal Tweeter Instructables version is up
The Thermal Tweeter Twitter printer how-to is up at Instructables.
PROTOTYPE: Thermal Tweeter, networked Twitter printer @dangerousproto
Free video chat by Ustream Send a Tweet to @dangerousproto and watch it print live on the USTREAM feed. Thermal Tweeter is hacked together from a SparkFun thermal printer and the web platform internet development board. No computers are used to query twitter or run the printer, this is a 100% stand-alone Twitter appliance. This […]
DIY inkjet printer
This quarter at the University of Washington a group of students (Patrick Hannan, Jared Knutzen, Joy Markham, & Myself – Nicholas C Lewis) produced some documentation on the development of a DIY inkjet printer. This project is attracting a lot of attention and spawning some interesting ideas. There are people talking about adapting it to […]
Epson PCB printer hack
rucalgary modified an Epson printer to print PCBs. The results look good, but the printing process isn’t simple. It requires multiple passes and a heat gun, check out the video after the break. Thanks McZ!