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: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 :-)