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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. Guinness Wastage! by joe90 · · Score: 3, Insightful

    If the ink is toxic, then it's a waste of good wholesome food!

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    1. Re:Guinness Wastage! by ShaunC · · Score: 3, Insightful
      Why are so many nerds on Slashdot prolific drinkers of alcohol? Don't you know it kills the brain and is bad for your liver? Why would you purposely damage your own body?
      Probably the same reason a lot of us smoke, even though we know damn well the effects it has ("sooner or later, everyone stops smoking"). Nerds are not generally known for our impressive social capabilities. Smoking and drinking are both highly social activities, avenues for meeting new people. Drinking, in particular, allows one to shed the stress of whatever's going on at work, lighten up, and become a bit more friendly with strangers. The results are often positive.

      Oh, fuck it, I'm just trying to rationalize bad habits. We drink to be merry, and we don't need a reason why. Bottoms up! :)
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    2. Re:Guinness Wastage! by Tim+C · · Score: 3, Insightful

      Because it tastes nice and it's fun, and no matter how healthy you try to be you're still going to die one day. Might as well enjoy yourself in the meantime; rather a waste of a life otherwise.

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  2. Re:Seeing as people already use beer ... by lanc · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Hm, yes, one possibly should read first what one reacts on.

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  3. Beer??? by Spudley · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Okay... who's the philistine who referred to Guinness as "beer"??? ;-)

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    1. Re:Beer??? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Yea, a stout is a beer. So is a lager. So is ale. And of course, the cheap American favorite, Pilsner.

      Apparently GGP thinks Pilsner is the only type of beer and got modded +5 Insightful? Who let the younguns on to /.?

  4. Outrage!!! by the+Gray+Mouser · · Score: 3, Insightful

    The only thing that should be written on a head of Guinness is a shamrock!

  5. Re:old news by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

    I love how people brand stuff as "old news". Just because you saw something on some arbitrary website doesn't mean everyone else has. Get over yourself.

  6. Slownewsday by mobby_6kl · · Score: 4, Insightful

    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.

  7. Inspired? by Purity+Of+Essence · · Score: 2, Insightful
    ... printing messages on the foam head of a Guinness is just inspired.

    The word you are looking for is blasphemy.
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