Receipt racer wastes a lot of paper

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[Joshua Nobel] and the team at undef came up with a receipt printer game for the OFFF 2011 festival in Barcelona. The game is a small openFrameworks app that prints a maze on a thermal printer. A 'car' is guided through the maze with input taken from a DualShock 3 controller. The game is limited to a maximum distance of 50 meters, the length of the roll of paper. We wondered about the waste of … [Read more...]

Game Boy printer USB cable and software

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[Furrtek] hooked up his Game Boy printer for use with a PC (translated). The two-part hack started with a cable to attach the device via USB. A Nokia interface cable was used as a base to translate the USB signals into serial, and an ATtiny45 microcontroller added to talk to the printer. He did a great job of free-forming the circuit alterations and fitting it back into the plastic USB plug … [Read more...]

Receipt FAIL

Today's fail comes courtesy of GNUCITIZEN's [pdp]. This would have made that TJX WEP crack much easier. … [Read more...]