Lego Hello World

"Lego felt tip 110" printer connected to an Apple Mac. This is not mindstorms, I designed/built/coded it all from scratch including analog motor electronics, sensors and printer driver, the USB interface uses a "wiring" board.

FAQ: Track name? "Christopher and Raphael just popper Shinichi Osawa distortion disco edit"

FAQ: How long did this take? Hard to say, maybe 3 weeks working evenings.

FAQ: You're a student and this is a university project? I'm not a student, this is just a hobby project.

FAQ: Just a remake of the 1092a? No, I'd never seen the 1092a until now. However some of the parts came from a 8094 kit amongst others many years ago. It is made to my own design, but I acknolwedge influences and the great work of the official lego designers !

FAQ: Does this use mindstorms? Nope, wiring demo board + homemade analog electronics and sensors.

FAQ: DPI? Dots per inch? Approx 75 DPI

FAQ: PPM? Pages per minute? Not even 1! I sped things up a little in the video editing to keep it interesting to watch :)

FAQ: Helvetica? Yes of course, my respect to those who noticed :)

FAQ: Full color version/more colours? Originally I was going to do 3 colour version, but I had to simplify as only have 4 lego motors.

FAQ: Open source, schematics etc? Sorry this took a while:
http://www.adamish.com/projects/legop...

FAQ: Wrote your own driver? Yes, uses standard Mac OS print mechanism.

FAQ: Are you using some sort of MCU demo board(the black pcb)? Yes. [1] http://wiring.org.co/hardware/

FAQ: re: Mac vs PC abuse? Video not meant as a Mac advert and I'm sorry if the Apple logo offends anyone. I just find them easier to use.

FAQ: Felt tip damage drying up? Yes this is a problem, but one felt tip usually lasts for quite a few pages.

FAQ: Felt tip auto-capping? Nope, sorry.

FAQ: Sensor info: Horizontal positioning using homemade shaft encoder (black/white rotating lego squares you see in the vid) with a SY-CR102 photo reflector from Maplins, (only £0.89 or $1.30). This is into a sampled analog input as I couldn't get full enough saturation to trigger the ext interrupt pins. There are also push buttons built into lego bricks for left and right end stop detection.

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  Science & Technology

[Tristan102100]

that is amazing. legos draw better than me.

[ahhpple]

So the horse and the guy on the horse powers the thing... the two on the computer are doing the actual programming and shit... wtf does the guy flipping up and down do

[Angroham linley]

Amazing

[Hunter Creed]

yea aesthetics haha

[Hunter Creed]

Its a wind up return mechanism, or just aesthetics lol

[ProgrammingAndMe]

It must be cheap to buy more ink lol

[jaracko jarackian]

lol i print all my school work with this but it uses a sharpie... the really thin 1 that is like the size of a tooth pick... it takes me a while to print it out though...

[TheSpidermanJerry]

freaking awescme

[shturmanser]

где я могу найти лего из которого спаяны материнские платы? :))

[Angroham linley]

Wow

[Andreas4696]

He's using Mac ;( 

[seizedfire178]

very astonishing printer you built there....