printer

Hi there, you can read more about the technical background here: https://guestbook.goodenough.us/info James Adam was the genius behind the whole project. There's been efforts to make networked thermal printers in the past, like the Berg printer: https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/ And James has an open-source project here that you might be interested in: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer The rest of us don't have hardware experience. Four of us can code, one of us is on more of the UI side of things, and I do some doodles for the team.

The code for the guestbook is not open source, but it's built on this open-source platform: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer

I wondered when this might happen. You can't really rely on any of these devices with a 'cloud' based backend to work a couple of years after you've bought them (As anyone with a Nabaztag gathering dust in a corner will tell you). I made my own version of the little printer based on the open source plans here: https://github.com/exciting-io/printer/wiki/Making-your-own-... It's really easy to get up and running and interfacing with it is simple. I have mine print out reminders for when to plant seeds for the garden and it also notifies me when automated downloads via FlexGet have finished.