Title: Frankfurter Buchmesse (book fair) and Thermal Tweeter
Post by: irrenhaus on October 15, 2011, 09:28:06 pm
Post by: irrenhaus on October 15, 2011, 09:28:06 pm
Hi all,
on Thursday I visited the Frankfurter Buchmesse (a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany).
There was an extra building by the car manufacturer Audi which had lot of Audi stuff inside and a room for some antique things.
In the main room of this building there were a few cars standing around and an art installation.
The art installation is the mainly interesting thing:
For rows of 34 thermal printers each. All 136 thermal printers were printing - guess what - twitter messages.
It was impressive - an impressive waste of paper :)
The file IMG_20111013_142304.jpg shows the waste of paper on the second day - I don't know if they already removed some of the paper or not.
Just wanted to share those photos with you (sadly I only had my smartphone for photos and not much time).
Nils
on Thursday I visited the Frankfurter Buchmesse (a book fair in Frankfurt, Germany).
There was an extra building by the car manufacturer Audi which had lot of Audi stuff inside and a room for some antique things.
In the main room of this building there were a few cars standing around and an art installation.
The art installation is the mainly interesting thing:
For rows of 34 thermal printers each. All 136 thermal printers were printing - guess what - twitter messages.
It was impressive - an impressive waste of paper :)
The file IMG_20111013_142304.jpg shows the waste of paper on the second day - I don't know if they already removed some of the paper or not.
Just wanted to share those photos with you (sadly I only had my smartphone for photos and not much time).
Nils
Title: Re: Frankfurter Buchmesse (book fair) and Thermal Tweeter
Post by: sqkybeaver on October 16, 2011, 03:24:19 am
Post by: sqkybeaver on October 16, 2011, 03:24:19 am
i hope Ian gets some credit!
Title: Re: Frankfurter Buchmesse (book fair) and Thermal Tweeter
Post by: ian on October 19, 2011, 11:46:23 am
Post by: ian on October 19, 2011, 11:46:23 am
Very cool. I wonder what model of printer they use, and how easy it is to change the paper :) It would be funny if it was the same SparkFun printer.
I can't claim too much credit though, there are a host of twitter printing gadgets out there. I think we did it really well though using only embedded equipment instead of the easy way of using a PC to parse the feed and drive the devices ;)
I can't claim too much credit though, there are a host of twitter printing gadgets out there. I think we did it really well though using only embedded equipment instead of the easy way of using a PC to parse the feed and drive the devices ;)
Title: Re: Frankfurter Buchmesse (book fair) and Thermal Tweeter
Post by: sqkybeaver on October 19, 2011, 02:08:58 pm
Post by: sqkybeaver on October 19, 2011, 02:08:58 pm
given the amount of printers, i assume they used a pc for the internet connection, and probably used some sort of serial network for all the printers.
or had a bunch of guys running around back stage switching wires to and from a single serial port.(its magic)
or had a bunch of guys running around back stage switching wires to and from a single serial port.(its magic)