I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
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Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#2I thought about doing something like this so I could turn the tickets I work on into paper tickets but never quite got around to it.
(I did buy a cheap receipt printer on eBay though and managed to burn it out in the first 10 minutes of printing. ProTip: a receipt printer with the width specified in inches is likely to be a quality printer by a reputable manufacturer, one specified in mm is likely to be a piece of junk from China.)
Adding a QR code would help a lot in terms of making a cyber-physical object where you could close the ticket by pointing at it...
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#3I had one of these as well that you could print just by writing to a device file. I'm sure it had fancier formats for graphics and stuff but it was fun to just use some ascii art to get something printed.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#4Very kool! Good job :)
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#5I'd love to have something like this
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#6Your Side Projects link to Github in the first sentence is 404.
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#7Building one of these is probably easier than wrangling the GitHub notifications settings into having a meaningful signal:noise
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#8This is a really funny read for a Friday morning.
It should play an MP3 of a line cook in a busy diner shouting, "Order up!", and then he can stick it on a rotating order wheel hanging above his desk.
EDIT: One of these things: https://www.webstaurantstore.com/choice-stainless-steel-orde...
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#9These printers are fun. I got one from a hardware swap meet a few years back and used the same software to work it into a public art project I did a bit later. You could listen to or record your own “dream” story to a kiosk, and upon leaving one, you’d get a paper receipt. It was a fun, tangible interaction that gave a bit of permanence to something purely audio.
Re: I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues
#10Rather than the chmod of the printers /dev node, the user could probably be added to the `lp` group to grant the correct permissions.
"Just `chmod 777` it" as the universal solution to permission issues is usually solving the wrong problem.