Just another really cheap piece of hardware that might turn out to be able to be repurposed into something really cool =)
Another day, another gadget.
I recently acquired a miniature thermoprinter just for fun because spending 14 EUR (that is 18.47 USD at the time I am writing this) was a no-brainer. I will skip one beer in the beer garden. NOT. It’s 37 °C outside…
For those interested, here is the link to the German ebay-offer.
Sorry. Back to the printer. It has originally a parallel port but comes packaged with a usb-parallel adapter cable. The question was: will the Raspberry work with an adapter and subsequently, the printer. Things turned out to be not that simple. Missing modules, the usual permission problems and the German language with its funny Umlauts (ÄÖÜ).
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