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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. Something like... by Yetihehe · · Score: 3, Informative

    This http://www.printdreams.com/ ?

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  2. Bikes Against Bush by prakslash · · Score: 5, Informative

    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.

  3. Re:Beer??? by mj_sklar · · Score: 4, Informative
    Yes, it is a stout! And, by the article you linked to, a stout is a beer!

    Stout is a style of dark beer made using roasted malts or roast barley.
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