Comments on: Connecting a thermal printer to a BBC microbit

By: vahakn matossian

vahakn matossian — Tue, 19 Feb 2019 12:39:19 +0000

this is so nice
i did something similar once upon a time
http://vahakn.co.uk/product/quiet-radio-new/

By: blogmywiki

blogmywiki — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 15:44:32 +0000

Good luck! Modern versions of these projects use USB versions of the thermal printer, but the beauty of the serial one is it can be driven by a humble micro:bit! Keep us posted.

By: Simon

Simon — Tue, 27 Nov 2018 11:11:35 +0000

This is super awesome!
I’m just starting out on a project using one of these thermal printers. I hope to be able to print out some sort of encoded message as part of a puzzle box I’m constructing. I would love to be able to get graphics printing, and have the printer spit out a message using a pigpen cipher.
I think I’ll start with a simple caesar cipher, as text I can manage! (I think)
Really appreciate this tutorial – absolutely no way I could do this without it!!!