“Hello World”, LEGO-style
This is probably the coolest thing you are apt to see all day. Thanks to faithful Macenstein reader Benton for the tip!
Writes creator Adam:
“Lego felt tip 110” printer connected to an Apple Mac.
I designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a “wiring” board.
FAQ: Track name? “Christopher and Raphael just popper Shinichi Osawa distortion disco edit”
FAQ: How long did this take? Hard to say, maybe 3 weeks working evenings.
FAQ: Just a remake of the 1092a? No, I’d never seen the 1092a until now. However some of the parts came from a 8094 kit amongst others many years ago. It is made to my own design, but I acknolwedge influences and the great work of the official lego designers !
FAQ: Does this use mindstorms. Nope, wiring demo board + homemade analog electronics and sensors.
FAQ: DPI? Dots per inch? Approx 75 DPI
FAQ: PPM? Pages per minute? Maybe 1 is pushing it, I sped things up a little in the video editing to keep it interesting to watch 🙂
FAQ: Full color version/more colours? Originally I was going to do 3 colour version, but I had to simplify as only have 4 lego motors.
FAQ: Open source, schematics etc. Yes, I’ll try to get around to this soon.
FAQ: Wrote your own driver? Yes, how sad is that!!
FAQ: Are? you using some sort of MCU demo board(the black pcb)? Yes. [1] http://wiring.org.co/hardware/
FAQ: Mac vs PC abuse. Video not meant as a Mac advert and I’m sorry if the Apple logo offends anyone. I just find them easier to use.
FAQ: Felt tip damage drying up? Yes this is a problem, but one felt tip usually lasts for quite a few pages.
That’s off the hook!
Saw this on reddit earlier today and I was wondering what the song was. Awesome.
Too cool for words.
WOW – speechless! Awesomeness manifested *lol*
This is the coolest thing I have ever seen!!!! Ya know I bet Lego would pay you some serious cash for this idea!!! I know we would buy one!! Great job!!!
What a neat creation. How long did it take you to program it? Making your own printer driver sounds compacted. Props!
Could you please start selling them?
Thats good, can i buy it?!!