Response to The Thermal Printer Project: Part I

A few days ago, I decided to purchase the Adafruit Thermal Printer, which was compatible with the Raspberry Pi. This thermal printer has been on my mind for a while but this week a reason for buying one came to mind (aside from the fun of experimenting with a thermal printer which was obvious to me).
Really enjoyed this series from James about hooking a thermal printer to a cronjob that'll print his weather, webmentions, and news off in the mornings. Brilliant! I've got some Pi's laying around collecting dust, I should use them for something fun like this.
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  • Thank you for your kind words, James! Your sending a webmention to me resulted in my uncovering a bug with the logic in my code. I recently added a procedure that will collect my webmentions sent while I was sleeping as I don't keep the thermal printer on during the night. But, there was a bug that I did not catch. I just printed off your webmention like what would happen every hour when I check for new webmentions. Here is a photo of the webmention: https://jamesg.blog/assets/webmention_james.jpeg Apologies for the red strip. This indicates I am about to run out of paper. I'd best change the roll soon. The thermal printer is certainly fun to work with and reminds me of what you can all do with the Pi. I am interested in buying a keyboard that would let me set up macros. But I need to check compatability because the thermal printer already uses some GPIO pins and I can't use a Pi HAT in that case.

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