Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
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Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#2"HP" "obscure"
Cool nonetheless.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#3Next try writing a printer driver for your iPhone.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#4Next try writing a printer driver for your iPhone.
if you shoehorn it into CUPS you might as well just expose CUPS on your home network and use AirPrint via IPD at that point ;)
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#5Freedom -- that's what it is. There are now more and more cases where we don't have to ask for permission.
Unfortunately, as I look around, I see most of the hardware vendors around me as gatekeepers. They prevent me from writing custom code in various ways. Apple restricts access to NFC or their UWB positioning, Supernote Manta does not let me access a bluetooth microphone, the list goes on. Denon at least has an API in their amps/receivers: buggy, but it's there.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
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Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#7"HP" "obscure" Cool nonetheless.
sliiiiightly obscure in that it seems to use the ULD drivers (or a variant of); HP's "unified linux driver" that talks Samsung's printing language. it's weird.
https://wiki.debian.org/CUPSPrintQueues#hpuld
claude seems to have realized it was one of the samsung printer variants and just shoehorned in a samsung MFP driver to the OS.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#8On a similar experience, I use moonlight on my Android TV to stream video games from my computer in another room. I use my own fork from an unmerged PR which enables me to use an Xbox One Wireless adapter so I can play with my pad wirelessly. These pads have a 3.5mm jack on them which on Windows and Linux enables me to route audio from the game to headphones connected to the pad. Moonlight and the xow driver it bundled, was nowhere near being able to provide this as a feature.
After about 5 hours, feeding it the GIP spec, an export of sniffed usb traffic from Windows, prior art (xone driver for linux), and giving Claude connectivity to my Shield via adb, I had it working. This continuously blows my mind that I dont have to beg a developer on Github to do it for me.
Claude could do it for me for $20.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#9Yeah. I have a Stratasys J55 3D printer. Industrial and closed.
And now I can print to it via my Mac.
It's a fun time to be alive.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#10Nice! I've an ML-1710 that is sitting in a closet that I'd love to get properly working on macOS. I've tried with SPLIX and followed the directions to the letter to install the drivers, but it just doesn't stick, in that I can only manage to get one print queue through the device for each time the computer is turned on. I gave up and repaired a junked Epson and put that into service, but I really prefer the formar printer for making line tenplates.