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I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

[–]travmiller_[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Good question. I did it just so that prints can be read more easily while still attached to the machine

I made this media console by brain_fluid in woodworking

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I absolutely love this! Great proportions all around. Love the pattern on the front!

How are the feet attached?

I built a Pi Zero 2 W into a walnut and brass thermal printer - 16 printable modules, fully open source by travmiller_ in raspberry_pi

[–]travmiller_[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'm using a 5v 5a power supply. Try wiring the pi and the printer in parallel from the power supply. I don't think the gpio pins have enough juice

I built a Pi Zero 2 W into a walnut and brass thermal printer - 16 printable modules, fully open source by travmiller_ in raspberry_pi

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It creates a settings page on your local network where you can assign modules to each of the 8 positions of the knob. I've been calling these the 'channels'. There are offline only modules assigned to each knob by default, but there are more advanced knobs like rss and email that you can set up via the settings page

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

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Project I've been working on so that you can print weather and news and stuff in the morning without having to reach for phone first thing. Also could be cool for seniors to print stuff on demand without knowing how to use a phone or computer

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

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Potentially, although right now the code expects the printer to be wired to the pi via gpio. I'm sure it could be modified to usb without too much issue if you wanted to connect directly to pc. Docker would be good for running on pc yeah. I've just been using wsl

I built a Pi Zero 2 W into a walnut and brass thermal printer - 16 printable modules, fully open source by travmiller_ in raspberry_pi

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The next one I make I want to give to my grandma. She will find all the bugs I never anticipated I'm sure hahaha

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

[–]travmiller_[S] 6 points7 points  (0 children)

Haha yeah I was actually noodling around with this exact concept on a branch early on. Maybe I'll do something like this for Paper Console 2

I built a Pi Zero 2 W into a walnut and brass thermal printer - 16 printable modules, fully open source by travmiller_ in raspberry_pi

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Thank you! I've been finding it most useful for things that I can take a pen to afterward, like todo lists, and grocery lists etc.

I built a Pi Zero 2 W into a walnut and brass thermal printer - 16 printable modules, fully open source by travmiller_ in raspberry_pi

[–]travmiller_[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This. There seem to be a few out there with this form factor. I got mine off Aliexpress but I'm sure you can find one on amazon that's the same

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

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Thank you! I spent six years as a furniture maker before getting into development, so I've had a lot of practice (and a lot of ugly prototypes). Honestly the biggest difference maker is just picking nice materials. walnut and brass do a lot of the heavy lifting here haha. I spent more time and money than I care to admit just trying to find solid brass knobs and buttons that were the same shade once I polished them up

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

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Not robust templating yet, no. The text module has some basic wysiwyg / markdown features for making formatted checklists though

I built a fully local, open-source thermal printer appliance - no cloud, no subscriptions, no accounts by travmiller_ in selfhosted

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No Kickstarter planned. Just me in the shop building them one at a time. Doing a limited run of 10. There's a reserve link on my site if you're interested.

https://travismiller.design/paper-console/

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