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Print Messages On Your Beer
Migraineman writes "I stumbled upon a clever hack by Sprite. He reverse-engineered the pin functions on an HP inkjet cartridge and built a simple driver board that converts the cartridge into a hand-held inkjet printer. The driver board is programmed with a fixed message. Moving the 'print head' is your responsibility. Printing messages on a whiteboard was the original inspiration, but printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired."
You know Homeland Security is gonna find a way to use this on our foreheads. It MUST be stopped now!
Table-ized A.I.
If the ink is toxic, then it's a waste of good wholesome food!
Fast, cheap & reliable. Pick two.
Even more ways to stamp "Pen15" on your buddies forehead at school!
Why are the politicians wasting time trying to stop terrorists and piracy when they should be protecting valuable beer! That is true terrorism!
http://bgcommonsense.blogspot.com
Okay... who's the philistine who referred to Guinness as "beer"??? ;-)
(Spudley Strikes Again!)
printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired.
And also a waste of a very good beer. Vandalism should not be encouraged!
"All great wisdom is contained in .signature files"
The only thing that should be written on a head of Guinness is a shamrock!
this is old. i saw this back in october on boingboing.
please me, have no regrets.
"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."
Epitaph of John Keats, 1795-1821, on his tombstone in the Protestant Cemetary in Rome.
"How to Do Nothing," kids activities, back in print!
Still this is cool, nonetheless.
Don't people have something better to do, tham waste prefectly good guinnes, polute water and measure their testicles diameter?
Things in a rear mirror might be behind you
This http://www.printdreams.com/ ?
Extreme Programming - Redundant Array of Inexpensive Developers
I've always been a big fan of Sprite_tm's projects. http://hackaday.com/search/?q=sprite_tm
Its like an editable EULA.
liqbase
Back then we drank beer. wtf with the geeks of today?
Engineering is the art of compromise.
Come on, wasting beer????
Now his next step has to be to find an edible ink. An inkjet just flash-boils ink. It has to be possible to do the same to fruit juice, colored water, beer (though the dissolve gas might be tricky), or even just plain water. You just need to clean the cartridge and get a refill kit.
A nice hack that he could sell to bars would be a water-based sprayer to draw the bar's logo/name on the beer foam.
If a head is really clogged, if you are brave you can clear it out by literally sucking out the holes. I have been told that if you spit it out right away and rinse your mouth, there is no harm, as long as you don't mind a colorful mouth and teeth for a day or so. As a disclaimer, though, check with your local friendly poison center first before doing this at home. :)
Thats easy, I use the HP inkjet cartridge as my writing utensil of choice. Who needs pens?
Mark
I think this may be the only comment thread so far that has nothing to do with beer. Until now, when I just mentioned it. Oops.
A dude in New York City, Josh Kinberg, used a similar internet-enabled, dot-matrix printer mounted on a bike.
He used it to spray paint anti-Bush grafitti on New York's streets during the last elections.
Very cool. The cops arrested him and took his stuff but he was let go and won a case against them.
Video of the printer in action. His site.
After drinking 9 or 10 my Guinness speaks to me. Usually telling me to do bad things...
Sure we do! Posting our testicles' diameters on /..
Commodore64_love: I don't comprehend people who're so frightened of death that they'll bankrupt themselves to stay alive
Get in touch with this guy who prints edible sushi out of an inkjet.
Bravo, for an inspired bit of hardware munging.
-jcr
The only title of honor that a tyrant can grant is "Enemy of the State."
Wait...at first man had a pen. He took classes in calligraphy (etc..etc...) in order to learn how to write well.
Then man invented the printing press. Now man need only place certain tablets in certain order and he can print uniform letters every time hundreds of times without writers cramp!
Then man invented the printer, an easier to use, cartridge based device that did not need tablets.
And now man has invented...wait a minute...what the hell is the difference between this and a man with a pen and a piece of thin plastic with easels for various letters, other than the fact this required more time to make, costs more and looks sloppier.
Keep in mind I'm ignoring ballpoint pens. A good ol' inkwell can write on beer quite efficiently though.
Ginga no Rekshiya Mata Each page.
On an egg...
We're all hypocrites. We all have hidden parts, it's the contrast between them that make us more a hypocrite than others
Who the hell keeps tagging this story "slownewsday"?
This is exactly the stuff that belongs on slashdot, the kind of cool geeky hacks that when you do them, normal people go, WTF? With countless idiotic political flamewars, Apple pimping, and anti-MS FUD, it's stories like this that keep slashdot sane. Would you rather have another flamewar where nobody convinces anybody, but still keeps shouting their point of view till they're blue in the face? How about "Guns, good or bad?", I don't think we've had a firearms flamewar here in a while.
I realize that this isn't the first time a HP cartridge was used outside its printer, but it also isn't something most people did, or maybe even knew about.
For those blokes who just don't know when to stop yappin' and drink their pint.
OR...
CERTIFIED OWL-FREE GUINNESSIf there's one thing I can't stand, it's an owl in my beer.
OR... better still...
BRILLIANT!This post © Copyrite Duggeek, all rights reversed.
This should go into the Guinness Book of World Records
that would be malicious.. his device dropped chalk dust, which easily washes away...
every day http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Special:Random
1. Inventors develop inkjets that print on beer
2. "I for one welcome our lager printing overlords"
3. ????
4. PROFIT!!
you've discovered a way to turn an inkjet printer into a $70 party trick
If a head is really clogged, if you are brave you can clear it out by literally sucking out the holes. I have been told that if you spit it out right away and rinse your mouth, there is no harm, as long as you don't mind a colorful mouth and teeth for a day or so. As a disclaimer, though, check with your local friendly poison center first before doing this at home. :
Many inkjet forumulations used to contain cyanide-based compounds. I don't know if they still do, but this would be EXTREMELY stupid regardless.
Use a shop vac or something, if the method really works (I doubt it does. Heads clog because of dried up ink.)
Please help metamoderate.
This is a really cool idea, and, as a computer engineer, I see the geek-cred the author earned in creating it...
But, obviously, this was his only printer, as evidenced by the poorly-drawn pencil sketch circuit diagram, this must have been his only printer!
All in the name science... or at least, all in the name screwing around with science! ^_^
"Adventure? Excitement? A Jedi craves not these things."
The word you are looking for is blasphemy.
+0 Meh
At 7cm, it appears that you've measured your "middle testicle".
This is about my sentiment on the issue as well... I honestly don't care for any beer, I have a moderately well developed palette, but I simply don't enjoy beer, or wine for that matter... Just me though.. I will use various types of either when cooking though.
There is a very vast variety of beers and wines above, and beyond what most will taste in a lifetime. Most will stop when they find something they like... And I have to agree, that a lot of Guinness snobs haven't really tried too many beers, they just do it to be "different."
It's kind of like any trend that starts out of rebellion, and becomes the norm...
Michael J. Ryan - tracker1.info
Guinness is a fine mainstream stout, nothing wrong with that.
You are right that some people seem to think that it's the "best" beer or some such nonsense, though.
-- To dream a dream is grand, but to live it is divine. -- Leto ][
Apply beer directly into head.Apply beer directly into head.
Apply beer directly into head.
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Not a huge fan of de Koninck, and I'm more partial to Quadrupels (and other strong dark Belgian-style ales) myself.
In all seriousness though, I still enjoy a good Tripel
Beer is fine, provided you don't get yourself drunk all the time and destroy your liver. Moderate drinking (i.e. wine with dinner, but don't get drunk) may even have health benefits.
As for smoking, well, you'll get to die from something like emphysema, which is horrible. Both of my grandpas died of that, the one who lived long enough for me to know was quite miserable at the end. The other one died before even my older brother was born--they didn't want to tell him that mom was pregnant at the time, because they knew he'd probably never live long enough to meet either of us.
As for the one I did know (and who quit cold turkey after the truth about how awful it was started to become clearer), he eventually had to take oral steroids, which weakened his bones. He finally broke his back by picking up a gallon of milk. I seem to recall that that was about the time he gave up the ghost. He eventually became too weak to even hack and cough, then finally died.
Might want to think about what sort of future you're buying with that little bit of temporary pleasure, you know. I'd rather you didn't find out the hard way just because you're like most people and put a large 'discount' on pain that's far enough in the future that you can ignore it.