I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer
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#2I wonder if you can see what was sent by others
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#3saw this project on TikTok when it went viral, love both the concept and implementation. the creator could easily overengineer something simple like this, but looks like the Pi stands up well with high load.
the only problem i had with the site itself was actually accessing it - TikTok doesn't "do" links so i kept having to check if i'd spelt their name right!
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#4That’s awesome - I did a similar thing recently by replacing my sticky notes with receipts - https://github.com/ben-gy/thermalnotes
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#5I love all of the HN receipt printer posts, keep them coming please. There is something delightful in this analog experience.
https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
(if you build yourself, source non-phenol [made without BPA/BPS] thermal paper rolls)
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#6There was a REALLY cool project by the design firm Berg in the UK about ~13 years ago. Cute little thermal printer with online services that allowed you to have scheduled printouts of things like weather reports, horoscopes, etc.
And... oh my goodness, I was looking for pictures of it and it turns out some kind person decided to put work in on having a way to do onprem services for it! [Check it out here](https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/)
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#7I wonder if the author is aware of the health effects of handling thermal paper.
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#8Anyone know where you can buy the wall map shown on the page?
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#9Anyone know where you can buy the wall map shown on the page?
It looks like this one from National Geographic: https://www.natgeomaps.com/re-world-decorator
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#10I did that once. Spammers found it within 15 minutes.