Comments on: Surreal random micro:bit story printer http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2019/04/microbit-story-printer/ reading, writing, coding, making Tue, 24 Oct 2023 13:43:21 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1 By: Howard Rheingold http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2019/04/microbit-story-printer/#comment-94065 Howard Rheingold Tue, 30 Apr 2019 21:11:43 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=3316#comment-94065 Thank you! I'm pretty much a beginner, so forgive me for easy questions. First, this is the printer I'm using with the micro:bit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/597 Would that work? I would use the same wiring as your random poetry printer, but modify the code from your story printer to work with the Pi? Thank you! This has been a dream of mine, and overcoming the hurdles, doing the learning and debugging necessary to make this work with a much larger vocabulary, is an important part of my learning. Thank you! I’m pretty much a beginner, so forgive me for easy questions. First, this is the printer I’m using with the micro:bit: https://www.adafruit.com/product/597

Would that work? I would use the same wiring as your random poetry printer, but modify the code from your story printer to work with the Pi?

Thank you! This has been a dream of mine, and overcoming the hurdles, doing the learning and debugging necessary to make this work with a much larger vocabulary, is an important part of my learning.

]]> By: blogmywiki http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2019/04/microbit-story-printer/#comment-94027 blogmywiki Wed, 24 Apr 2019 08:07:27 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=3316#comment-94027 Hi Howard! I tried doing a 'choose you're own adventure' too but am pretty sure I will run out of storage as well. A twitter friend suggested using a serial connection to a computer to send new text, but if you need a separate computer then you might as well go down the Raspberry Pi route. I made <a href="http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2012/12/pi-poems/" rel="nofollow">printer Pi-based printer projects ages ago</a>, though the instructions are probably very out-dated now. The Pi would allow you to use a USB thermal printer which would be easier to wire up, if not code. If you took the code on this page and replaced the micro:bit-specific bits (button presses, uart.write etc) with the relevant commands for the Pi you certainly could do the same thing with much, much more storage at your disposal, it would make a great project! Let me know if I can be of any more help and good luck! (This may be of use, but again it's very old: https://github.com/luopio/py-thermal-printer ) Hi Howard! I tried doing a ‘choose you’re own adventure’ too but am pretty sure I will run out of storage as well. A twitter friend suggested using a serial connection to a computer to send new text, but if you need a separate computer then you might as well go down the Raspberry Pi route. I made printer Pi-based printer projects ages ago, though the instructions are probably very out-dated now. The Pi would allow you to use a USB thermal printer which would be easier to wire up, if not code. If you took the code on this page and replaced the micro:bit-specific bits (button presses, uart.write etc) with the relevant commands for the Pi you certainly could do the same thing with much, much more storage at your disposal, it would make a great project! Let me know if I can be of any more help and good luck! (This may be of use, but again it’s very old: https://github.com/luopio/py-thermal-printer )

]]> By: Howard Rheingold http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/2019/04/microbit-story-printer/#comment-94023 Howard Rheingold Tue, 23 Apr 2019 18:54:28 +0000 http://www.suppertime.co.uk/blogmywiki/?p=3316#comment-94023 Thank you for this! I've always wanted to make something like this and successfully followed your directions. However, I've reached the word limit and would like to significantly expand it. Do you know of any workarounds for the micro:bit? Also, can you tell me, or direct me to a source, whether this Python script could work with Raspberry Pi and what wiring diagram I might need? Thank you for this! I’ve always wanted to make something like this and successfully followed your directions. However, I’ve reached the word limit and would like to significantly expand it. Do you know of any workarounds for the micro:bit? Also, can you tell me, or direct me to a source, whether this Python script could work with Raspberry Pi and what wiring diagram I might need?

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