Lego printer powered by Wiring board
What can you make with felt-tip markers, a Wiring board, sensors, motors, and LEGOs?
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Reverse engineering old printers
During their weekly Take Apart Tuesday, the fine folks at the Crash Space hackerspace in LA were planning to convert an old printer into a pen plotter, by disabling the original electronics and hooking directly to the stepper motors that controlled the print head.
Nickel-O-Matic printing robot
Via the Parallax site comes this project to build an automated wooden-nickel printing machine that’s sort of an homage to coin-op penny arcade machines. Nickel-O-Matic Robot
HOW TO – Tuesday! Make an “Invisible ink printer”
HOW TO – Tuesday! Make an “Invisible ink printer” – Take A New Twist On Lemon Juice. By Mike Golembewski Lemon juice has been used as invisible ink for centuries. Messages written in lemon juice are invisible to the naked eye. However, when brushed with a mix of iodine and water, they become quite visible. […]
Printer Spying?
I can has subtle spying? Here’s an Instructable from the Electronic Frontier Foundation about tracking codes printers add to documents they print. Readers of Make learned about this back in volume 6; now, we’ve got a convenient video to send our friends: Here’s the link to learn more on EFF’s site.
LEGO pin plotter
Check out this nifty LEGO NXT printer, a “needle plotter” with a …er… prickable area of 90 x 70mm at 33 pricks per inch. NXT pin-plotter III [via Hack-a-Day]
Epic HP printer take-apart
When I was writing my TiVo hacking book, my favorite part of the entire project was taking apart two TiVos (a series 1 and series 2) and trying to figure out what everything did. I tested components, poked around inside the code, did countless Google searches on chip manufacturers and parts numbers, looked up patents, […]