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If it's solely printing ASCII text, an open source daisy wheel printer would be mechanically easy to build. You could even make the daisy wheels swappable to al
by HideousKojima 4y ago
If it's solely printing ASCII text, an open source daisy wheel printer would be mechanically easy to build. You could even make the daisy wheels swappable to allow different character sets.
- userbinator 4y agoYou could even make the daisy wheels swappable to allow different character sets. You made me imagine a pan-Unicode daisywheel set the size of a bookshelf, and a printer that swaps them while printing, like a CNC machine. If only one had enough time and money...
- HideousKojima 4y agoI'm picturing old tape drive robot arms like this one: https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/19/1462894749-ibm-tape-bot.gif https://hips.hearstapps.com/pop.h-cdn.co/assets/16/19/146289...