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I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

I invited strangers to message me through a receipt printer

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·October 19, 2025
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b0rbb

There was a REALLY cool project by the design firm Berg in the UK about ~13 years ago. Cute little thermal printer with online services that allowed you to have scheduled printouts of things like weather reports, horoscopes, etc.

And... oh my goodness, I was looking for pictures of it and it turns out some kind person decided to put work in on having a way to do onprem services for it! [Check it out here](https://nordprojects.co/projects/littleprinters/)

ben-gy

That’s awesome - I did a similar thing recently by replacing my sticky notes with receipts - https://github.com/ben-gy/thermalnotes

bstsb

saw this project on TikTok when it went viral, love both the concept and implementation. the creator could easily overengineer something simple like this, but looks like the Pi stands up well with high load.

the only problem i had with the site itself was actually accessing it - TikTok doesn't "do" links so i kept having to check if i'd spelt their name right!

toomuchtodo

I love all of the HN receipt printer posts, keep them coming please. There is something delightful in this analog experience.

ge96

I wonder if you can see what was sent by others