Internet blocked at your office and feel like you’re just not getting your fix of Nyan Cat? Don’t worry, you can now use the fax machine to get your fix. [Tom Scott] put together the project to our delight, which will work best if you can find one of those fax machines that uses the continuous roll of paper. But as you can see above, individual sheets will work too. The best part is that Nyan Fax is live for callers from the UK and internationally!
The hack is using something called ‘fax polling’. It allows the sender to set up an on-demand server where any caller will be sent a queue of documents. In this case [Tom] crafted a Nyan Cat document that never ends… you’ll need to disconnect the phone line or pull the pug to stop the printing. See for yourself in the clip after the break. If you’re interested in setting up your own it can be done with the mgetty and sendfax packages on a Linux box.
Just in case you’re keeping score, [Tom Scott] is one of the guys behind the Webcycle.
Needs to call you on second line with the theme…
or send it in a way to modulate the fax machine to make the sound a la the floppy drives we see every few weeks…
How Stupid.
I concur. WTF is this stupid Nyan cat every seems obsessed with? How stupid.
Yeah stupid is stupid stupid, i agree stupid stupid!
..what? :)
“…pull the pug…”
http://www.furrytalk.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/06/funny-dog.jpg
I had a very similar thought. The most amusing typug I’ve seen all week.
this one also comes to mind
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5fXN7x7a5So
hahahahahahahahaha
its a practical joke without the punchline!!!
get it? line? the never ending line (trail) left by the cat XD
Do you think with a little social engineering you could fill offices everywhere with never ending Nyan Cats?
PSSST: the paper industry might be interested… sales
This sites gone to shit
or “gone to hip” as it were.
I agree, but even this is a breath of fresh air from all the Arduino stuff that gets posted here.
needs more arduino and raspberry pi
This would have been really funny if we still used continuous paper rolls in fax machines…
Wonder if you could somehow transfer the nyan cat to a fax machine and do it to someone else.
All my lines are voip now so barely work for fax at the best of time anyway.
Man, if you could just go to a site and send it a number to send a fax to then that would be a perfect office prank to do after everyone has left for the day.
But, better yet, it might be just as much fun to make the office have to pay international long distance charges too. :D
Needs some exploding star graphics. Then it would be purfect.
It does.