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Print Messages On Your Beer

Posted by kdawson on from the for-its-own-sweet-sake dept.

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."

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  1. Nooooo! by Tablizer · · Score: 5, Funny

    You know Homeland Security is gonna find a way to use this on our foreheads. It MUST be stopped now!

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    1. Re:Nooooo! by Goaway · · Score: 5, Funny

      You understand Slashdot better than any person should have to.

    2. Re:Nooooo! by enharmonix · · Score: 5, Funny

      You know Homeland Security is gonna find a way to use this on our foreheads. It MUST be stopped now! You mean we can print messages on beer and foreheads? Brilliant!
    3. Re:Nooooo! by d474 · · Score: 5, Funny

      Apply directly to the beer head.
      Apply directly to the beer head.
      Apply directly to the beer head.

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  2. Seeing as people already use beer ... by tomhudson · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... to print messages in snow, I guess this is reverse-enginnering at its finest.

  3. Re:Obligatory Keats reference by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Obligatory Keats reference? On Slashdot? Do you know what most of these people are like?! Oh well... I for one welcome our new dubiously-relevant-Keats-epitaph-quoting overlords! (See what I did there?)

  4. Practical uses? Let's start with... by Duggeek · · Score: 5, Funny

    BEST IF CONSUMED BY 5:30 PM

    For those blokes who just don't know when to stop yappin' and drink their pint.

    OR...

    CERTIFIED OWL-FREE GUINNESS

    If there's one thing I can't stand, it's an owl in my beer.

    OR... better still...

    BRILLIANT!
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