Comments on: Weather forecast on a RaspberryPi printer – now with added Pi

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 18:08:40 +0000

Hi Matthew – not dumb at all, it’s a very good question.

It must be possible, but the thermal printers are line printers, printing text one line of text (or pixels) at a time.

You’d need to find out if it’s possible to send the same text / images to a printer over USB – but those are usually page printers, printing a whole page at a time. The joy of the till roll printer is that it’s rip-and-read.

By: Matthew

Matthew — Wed, 25 Feb 2015 16:40:25 +0000

I know this will make me look dumb, but can this type of thing be used for a regular old epson or HP printer that one might have laying around or gotten free from craigslist?

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Weather forecast | mrbankscomputing — Tue, 04 Nov 2014 20:00:28 +0000

[...] world and have it update dynamically each day. I did a bit of digging and found that over on http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2013/05/raspi-wx/ they had done a similar thing with pi and a printer to print the weather [...]

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พิมพ์คำพยากรณ์อากาศ | Unofficial of Raspberry Pi Fan in Thailand — Sat, 26 Jul 2014 08:18:41 +0000

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By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Fri, 31 May 2013 07:27:53 +0000

Thank you Michael – not sure how to put it forward for the homepage.

By: Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer | Raspberry PiPod

Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer | Raspberry PiPod — Fri, 31 May 2013 06:08:45 +0000

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By: Michael Horne

Michael Horne — Fri, 31 May 2013 06:05:42 +0000

This is great – going to blog about it. You should put this forward to the Foundation for going on their homepage. It’s just the kind of reproduceable project they like :-)

By: Printing Daily Weather Forecasts with Raspberry Pi #piday #raspberrypi @Raspberry_Pi « adafruit industries blog

Fri, 31 May 2013 04:01:46 +0000

[...] Read more about it here and check out another weather forecast RPi project here! [...]

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Sun, 26 May 2013 09:54:45 +0000

Thank you, and thank you so much for your Python script which is what got me going on this in the first place. It works a treat on the Pi. Next I’d like to see if I can get the DropBox script to download ANY files in the remote txt/ToPrint folder, rather than just one called weather.txt – and maybe add some pictures somehow?

By: J. D. Harper

J. D. Harper — Sun, 26 May 2013 00:58:54 +0000

Awesome! And thanks for the tip about the drop box script for the Raspberry Pi. That’s going to make it *much* more useful!