Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
aschmelyun.com Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
Instead of doom-scrolling through my phone in the morning, I built an alternative with a Raspberry Pi, a dot matrix printer, and some PHP.
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Man, I wonder if it’s challenging to source a steady supply of paper for that thing…
Apparently not... Is it somehow still widely used. It's the most likely paper to give you paper cuts though https://physicsworld.com/a/researchers-cut-to-the-chase-on-the-physics-of-paper-cuts/
Yeah. Airlines still use it for log books and reports.
Wild would never have guessed. Maybe because it’s possible for it to print as a continuous sheet, and I guess it comes in big rolls, etc.
And ink?
*ribbons
Haha yeah also that.
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