FlourthPrinter
(floor + fourth = flourth)
FlourthPrinter was a year-long project I created with my roomate, Ellie, after purchasing a used thermal printer off eBay for $20. The printer was jerryrigged to accept serial inputs from a raspberry pi and power from a PCI card. Ellie and I wrote some Python code, and conncted the bot to twitter using the Tweepy library. Any tweet containing @flourthprinter would print out in our dorm. Images were turned into ASCII art and printed. We even got in the student newspaper!
