Apparently there is a trend of hooking up cash register style small thermal printers to computers or directly to the net to print tweets or whatnot. Early versions were hacked together (probably from surplus components), then adafruit made a kit, and now there are a few commercial products (see video embedded in article).
A Wired article covering the field: http://www.wired.co.uk/news/archive/2012-04/23/tiny-printers A creative way to waste paper, or useful? Here's one of the earlier models that's open hardware/software: http://gofreerange.com/hello-printer -Tom _______________________________________________ Hardwarehacking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blu.org/mailman/listinfo/hardwarehacking
