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."

Comments

Obligatory Keats reference

[dpbsmith]

"Here lies one whose name was writ in water."

Epitaph of John Keats, 1795-1821, on his tombstone in the Protestant Cemetary in Rome.

Re:Nooooo!

[Caffeinate]

So those fundamentalists who thought the mark of the beast was RFID chips under the skin were wrong after all . . .

Re:Alcohol abuse!

[S.O.B.]

What we need is pretzel flavoured ink.

Re:Guinness Wastage!

[tomhudson]

The culling of brain cells is a necessary part of organizing the brain along certain pathways and not others ...

For a good example, cats lose 2/3 of their brain cells before adulthood.

Humans lose half

We know that children of about age eight have twice as many brain cells, and twice as many neuron connections between brain cell as do adults. After age 8, the brains of children begin to cull out brain cells and the interconnections between brain cells, and to reorganize its connections.

Think of it as a maze - the culling removes all the dead ends, and keeps the useful highways and roads.

Without this culling, you'd have MORE random posts on /., not fewer :-)

Re:Technically Guinness stout not beer.

[Omestes]

A stout is a beer. I think that the American in you is confusing beer for the nasty pissy lagers they sell round these parts, and while pissy 50% rice lagers are beer, Guinness too is beer. There are better beers than Gunness, btw, try some Young's Double Chocolate Stout, it makes Guinness look like Budweiser. Well not quite, but still. Also support your local micro-brews, up in Flagstaff, Az there is a bar with the greatest stout known to man, I'm sure you can find something like it where you live. :)