Lego Hello World

“Lego felt tip 110” printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not mindstorms, 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: You’re a student and this is a university project? I’m not a student, this is just a hobby project. 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? Not even 1! I sped things up a little in the video editing to keep it interesting to watch 🙂 FAQ: Helvetica? Yes of course, my respect to those who noticed 🙂 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? Sorry this took a while: www.adamish.com FAQ: Wrote your own driver? Yes, uses standard Mac OS print mechanism. FAQ: Are you using some sort of MCU demo board(the black pcb)? Yes. [1] wiring.org.co FAQ: re: Mac vs PC abuse? Video not meant as …
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