[Dave] has a Game Boy Printer and loves the Mario-themed Easter egg that prints while holding the feed button during power-up. When he heard that Microchip gave us some Fubarino boards for our Easter Egg Contest, this hardware immediately came to mind and he set out to add a Hackaday Easter egg to the printer.
To tinker with the hardware, [Dave] built on the work of [Furrtek]—featured here a few years ago—which simplified the process of printing directly from an Arduino board. Connecting the TX and RX lines of the Arduino triggers the new Easter egg. He demonstrates printing both of the hidden messages in the video below.
This is an entry in the Fubarino Contest. Submit your entry before 12/19/13 for a chance at one of the 20 Fubarino SD boards which Microchip has put up as prizes!
The printer is a very unique device I thing we will never see a iphone printer or a xbone printer / other modern hardware. I have been looking for one “in good condition” as long as I have known they existed.
I’d probably call a bluetooth thermal receipt printer an iphone printer, comparable to the gb printer.
True, today with BT and WIFI there is not so much special any more in that. I have already printed photos from the Android phone to my Canon Inkjet.
The Gameboy Printer was made by Seiko Instruments for Nintendo. And if I remember right the Mario test image in the Gameboy Printer is not an easter egg.
can you use a raspberry pi?