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Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received
- busymom0 1y agoBtw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should see your artwork coming up: https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks
- stronglikedan 1y agoI wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.
- jacquesm 1y agoProbably quite low because they don't directly pipe it to the website. Once you do that the assholes will find you. Now the worst they might do is to try to kill your roll of paper or your office building by sending all black and hoping the printer overheats.
- PaulHoule 1y agoYou really can trash a thermal printer by printing too much black... I did it!
- lazyatom 1y agoIt used to be a lot worse, but now it's actually really low (I get to see all the pictures drawn, even if they don't go up into the final gallery).
- gnabgib 1y agoRelated We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle (115 points, 2023, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234
- lazystar 1y agoThe site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The existing comments in this thread imply the latter. Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackernews is becoming more and more like reddit each day.
- busymom0 1y agoI was able to check out the site and it was all SFW. I didn't see any objectionable stuff there at all. Btw, their live stream of the printer is still on YouTube where it shows the content: https://youtu.be/xTbBaQMbpBc https://youtu.be/xTbBaQMbpBc
- 0cf8612b2e1e 1y agoAre they filtered? My opinion of the average internet user, assumes this would be flooded by trolls immediately.
- busymom0 1y agoIf you read the 2 year old discussion linked in comments here, the owner said that the drawings on the actual website are all manually scanned by hand. So those are probably filtered. However, the YouTube livestream of the printer is not filtered. Basically it will print whatever but your drawing may or may not show up on site.
- neilv 1y agoThe current live feed image, of an F-word political statement directed against 5 different named parties, shows impressive penmanship.
- jagged-chisel 1y agoAnd it appears to have jammed with that message
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- ticoombs 1y agohttps://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook.goodenough.us/ https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook... Was hugged to death for me.
- NoSalt 1y agoI wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.
- hatingisok 1y agoLove this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun though. >last update December 10, 2024 It figures.
- ibarrajo 1y agoI just had to try, got a bitmap and set it directly on the canvas using js, I wonder if it will print. Canvas is 348x348. https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce75bfb https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce...
- a_t48 1y agoI did the same thing, though with `img.src = https://my_image/whatever.jpg; img.setAttribute("crossorigin", "anonymous");`
- thomascountz 1y agoObligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1] [1]: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&query=thermal%20paper%20bpa&sort=byDate&type=comment https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...
- VladVladikoff 1y agoMain reason I’m not doing this myself. But maybe there is some miniature printer that isn’t BPA paper? I guess inject?
- sgt 1y agoWhat about a tiny dot matrix printer? Is that a thing? It would be cool to have as part of a retro computing project.
- uncircle 1y agoI’ve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals that are even worse for our health than BPA.
- lazyatom 1y agoIt's trivially easy to get BPA-free thermal paper now.
- timenotwasted 1y agoI love this kind of stuff, makes me nostalgic for the early days of the internet. There are still so many fun, interesting things to find out there. However, in a twist of irony they seem so much more difficult to discover now.
- imagetic 1y agoMore!
- lloeki 1y agoFun fact: the dates somewhat leak location as they appear to be in whatever local format the poster happens to have set up. Also this makes them somewhat unreadable because for some you can't tell if it's month then day or day then month. (Not that it matters for this specific case ^^)
- sans_souse 1y agoNAME: -54N550U51-
- musicale 1y agoMiiVerse used to have a similar feature where people could post drawings and messages (and game screenshots) that would (potentially) show up in your Mii plaza.