I wouldnt be surprised if this applies to other Hondas than listed, e.g. FIT, Accord ...
I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#102This is a fun idea, but I've read thermal paper is surprisingly nasty stuff. [Edit: unless it's advertised as "phenol-free".] It's not just paper. It contains plastics (BPA or BPS) that you absorb through your skin when handling it. I'd avoid working with receipts at my desk all day. (I'd also avoid being a grocery store cashier...) https://www.pca.state.mn.us/green-chemistry/bpa-thermal-pape...
Why do they use thermal printing for receipts? Is it just cheaper because you don't have ink that runs out? Less moving parts so less maintenance?
Fast, reliable, inexpensive, relatively quiet. Hard to beat.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
What’s the reason behind the inches vs millimeters distinction? I understand it’s just a heuristic but I don’t get what the underlying cause is.
english == Made in America; Quality. metric == Chinese; Piece of crap is the intention I think. Not a fair distinction imho, but to each their own.
I've had a few crap Chinese receipt printers. I do appreciate that they print Chinese characters because I print a lot of anime fan art and art reproductions of 19th century Japanese prints and like to put as much kanji as I can on the back sides. On the other hand other than some official Pokemon art that renders beautifully on thermal printers because it was thought through like the Ansel Adams Zone System
https://safebooru.donmai.us/posts/2477177
I do almost all this work with inkjet printers and rasterize it all myself.
(I wrote my own text rendering engine for vertical CJK text, not because I was unhappy with the results I got printing characters with uniformly square metrics but because I wanted western characters and dingbats I introduced to look good. Sooner or later I'll probably write my own text rendering engine for horizontal roman text because I haven't met a kerning engine I really like and because there are many typographical details like ordinals (e.g. 5ᵗʰ) that I'd like to have better control of.)
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#104These printers also have an expansion network card. A decade ago I worked on a project to deploy a couple hundred of these to a restaurant chain as part of a POC for an online ordering program for pickup orders. The requirement for each franchisee was to acquire a static IP and configure one of these printers to bind that static address using a network card that replaced the serial connection. The online interface fr…
They are quite fast (200mm/s). If you send a malicious job you have 12m of paper sticking out of the printer within a minute :D
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#105This is awesome, I'd add a QR code with the link to the bottom (if possible on printer). Then could scan with your phone to bring the issue up for immediate triage. I imagine lots of issues can be closed right away (or very quickly).
The printers unusually can create barcodes and some of them also QR codes.
But it is also possible to print images. You can also configure them as standard printers and print via any common printing system (cups, windows spooler, …)
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#106> Wrapping up and next steps The only logical next step here is to get that metal spike thing, so you can stab closed issues on completion.
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Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#107> Wrapping up and next steps The only logical next step here is to get that metal spike thing, so you can stab closed issues on completion.
With a camera in the roof pointed at it that OCRs the most recently stabbed ticket and automatically marks it as 'done' with any comments you hand-wrote onto the slip of paper.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#108Kind of tangential, but I think it could be a lot of fun to make a "boardgame" computer that has a thermal printer, some number displays, and some buttons. It wouldn't try to run the whole game, but would only assist. It could print out scoresheets or special tokens, roll dice, keep track of a few numbers, that sort of thing. Maybe a barcode/QR scanner so you could round trip, like scan a printout and then choose an…
Although not a tangible as what you suggest, there already is a trend in modern board gaming to have app-assisted games, usually to manage hidden state and real-time elements, and primarily in cooperative games. A couple examples are Space Alert, X-COM and Mansions of Madness 2e.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#109Printing GitHub issues on receipt ? Are you trying to compete with the FED's money printing rate ?
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Web 2.0 -> Web 1.0 -> Web 2.0 adapter.
https://thedailywtf.com/articles/Web_0_0x2e_1
Yes the wooden table was the first thing that came to mind.
Oddly enough I have recently been drawing geometric designs, and then got the idea to draw them with a drawing ro bot. The current process is :
1. Draw design with ruler and compass
2. Photograph paper
3. Edge-detect image in Inkscape
4. Draw over the edge detected lines and save to SVG
5. Possibly convert to a graph, and run the Chinese postman algorithm over it
6. Convert graph to turtle commands and send to robot
So not far off. Also step 2 often involves a wooden surface...