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makkin thing @gbrnt@masto.hackers.town

6/17/2025, 9:11:20 PM

Public

So you know how the free software movement was started by getting frustrated with bad closed-source printer drivers?

Printers themselves are notoriously temperamental, with a hefty helping of planned obsolescence and crappy business models.

I (probably) can't fix "temperamental" but why shouldn't there be printers that you can build yourself? It blows my mind that we have this for 3D but not 2D.

Let's make this happen.

Messy electronics prototyping - daisy wheel from a Canon printer mounted to a stepper motor, solenoid triggered by a relay, motor driver on a breadboard

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