I would like to see driver for my samsung printer. Drivers for mac was only for some very old macOS
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
#22https://printervention.app (also co-written by Claude) may be useful in similar cases.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#23Performing Stallman's stunt. Cool story bro, but unverified. Guy is marketing AI on X with an "attention is all you need" picture etc.
I'm all for being skeptical, but it doesn't take too much digging to find the proof (it's in the original tweet thread): https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#24On 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 bundl…
I have another controller-related anecdote. I have a Razer Wolverine Xbox controller that has extra back paddle buttons. The controller doesn't expose the paddles directly to PC's over USB. You have to use button remapping on the controller to map them to 'real' Xbox buttons for the PC to see them. But I wanted to use the back paddle buttons on Steam as separate controls. So I downloaded the latest firmware update of…
What's the repository link? I think it would be fascinating to have a corpus of "hacked" solutions like this. Can't tell you how many times a couch co-op game night got sabotaged by some piece of hardware failing to communicate with another.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#25Freedom -- 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 AP…
I think, from a business perspective, they just don't see us at all. We're such a small, inconsequential part of the market that building open, free hardware with code that we can update, change, or alter for our needs is just.. not part of their business use-case.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#26If you see articles from old computing magazines or TV shows in the 1980s (there’s some good rabbit holes on YouTube), the prevailing optimism was that everyone would have a computer in their kitchen and write their own programs for whatever they need to do..
But programming languages and operating system fragmentation didn’t let that really take off
Maybe now that original promise of personal computers can be realized :)
Imagine instead of going to the App Store, just telling ChatGPT etc to make a custom app and run it right away on your phone
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#27I was able to get Claude to write an embedded Rust driver for an unsupported epaper screen in a couple of hours by providing it with the spec and some existing C drivers. It’s still not as fast as the arduino versions, but it let me make progress in a project that I’d been stuck on for months. Reverse engineering seems like an AI sweet spot.
In general I've been really happy to leverage Claude to quickly build software that only I use. It fits my needs exactly and I don't have to worry so much about how others will use it, if it is generalized enough, if the documentation is up to date, etc.
It's kind of nice.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#28Thanks for sharing :)
linking this here for those who don't wanna read the threads https://github.com/Kuberwastaken/hp-laser-1008a-macos
genuinely very interesting case to learn from for me because this was one of the HP branded Samsung printers which doesn't have native non-windows support !
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#29I tried to get Copilot to port the Linux drivers for my HP CP1025 to macOS, but it failed. Even modern Linux can’t print to it any more, I had to put an older distribution on a RasPi and now I’m printing at reduced quality.
It was crazy how the LLM held on to outdated information. It suggested so many things that might have worked on an older macOS but very obviously wouldn’t nowadays. It also tried to port from Linux for a while until it eventually discovered that cups on Linux didn’t support that printer either.
Re: Claude writing a macOS driver for my obscure HP printer built only for Windows
#30I have actual obscure RGB corner floor lamps with BLE in my office. I had Claude find the BLE protocol and use my Office 365 calendar feed to change their color to red when I'm in a scheduled meeting (event), and back to warm white when the meeting is over, so co-workers know I'm busy without doing "are you busy" sign language through my window. The script is polled every 60 seconds. Tinkering with stuff like this is a lot of fun.