Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

https://guestbook.goodenough.us

by busymom0 • 9 months ago

130 33 9 months ago

guestbook.goodenough.us

stronglikedan• 9 months ago

I wonder what their average dickbutt/day rate is.

jacquesm• 9 months ago

Probably quite low because they don't directly pipe it to the website. Once you do that the assholes will find you.

Now the worst they might do is to try to kill your roll of paper or your office building by sending all black and hoping the printer overheats.

PaulHoule• 9 months ago

You really can trash a thermal printer by printing too much black... I did it!

lazyatom3• 9 months ago

It used to be a lot worse, but now it's actually really low (I get to see all the pictures drawn, even if they don't go up into the final gallery).

busymom03• 9 months ago

Btw, you can watch a live feed of their printer, where you should see your artwork coming up:

https://guestbook.goodenough.us/thanks

jansan• 9 months ago

Looks like a paper jam

lazyatom3• 9 months ago

Fixed now

gnabgib• 9 months ago

Related We have a thermal printer hooked up to the internet, you can send us a doodle (115 points, 2023, 108 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37941234

lazystar• 9 months ago

The site appears to have gotten the ol' hug-of-death. For those who have seen the contents, can you answer if this is SFW or NSFW? The existing comments in this thread imply the latter.

Edit - downvotes for asking a question? Hackernews is becoming more and more like reddit each day.

busymom03• 9 months ago

I was able to check out the site and it was all SFW. I didn't see any objectionable stuff there at all.

Btw, their live stream of the printer is still on YouTube where it shows the content:

https://youtu.be/xTbBaQMbpBc

0cf8612b2e1e• 9 months ago

Are they filtered? My opinion of the average internet user, assumes this would be flooded by trolls immediately.

ticoombs• 9 months ago

https://web.archive.org/web/20251103183803/https://guestbook...

Was hugged to death for me.

NoSalt• 9 months ago

I wonder how many drawings had a rating greater than PG-13.

hatingisok• 9 months ago

Love this. Manually updating the guestbook doesn't sound fun though. >last update December 10, 2024 It figures.

ibarrajo• 9 months ago

I just had to try, got a bitmap and set it directly on the canvas using js, I wonder if it will print.

Canvas is 348x348.

https://gist.github.com/ibarrajo/d5dc106cf226a0f2286e7e959ce...

a_t48• 9 months ago

I did the same thing, though with `img.src = https://my_image/whatever.jpg; img.setAttribute("crossorigin", "anonymous");`

thomascountz• 9 months ago

Obligatory "be careful with that poisonous paper" warning[1]

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=false&qu...

VladVladikoff• 9 months ago

Main reason I’m not doing this myself. But maybe there is some miniature printer that isn’t BPA paper? I guess inject?

sgt• 9 months ago

What about a tiny dot matrix printer? Is that a thing? It would be cool to have as part of a retro computing project.

uncircle• 9 months ago

I’ve seen some receipts whose paper it was printed on proudly stated to be BPA free, but for all we know it might use chemicals that are even worse for our health than BPA.

lazyatom3• 9 months ago

It's trivially easy to get BPA-free thermal paper now.

timenotwasted• 9 months ago

I love this kind of stuff, makes me nostalgic for the early days of the internet. There are still so many fun, interesting things to find out there. However, in a twist of irony they seem so much more difficult to discover now.

imagetic• 9 months ago

More!

lloeki• 9 months ago

Fun fact: the dates somewhat leak location as they appear to be in whatever local format the poster happens to have set up.

Also this makes them somewhat unreadable because for some you can't tell if it's month then day or day then month.

(Not that it matters for this specific case ^^)

sans_souse• 9 months ago

NAME: -54N550U51-

musicale• 9 months ago

MiiVerse used to have a similar feature where people could post drawings and messages (and game screenshots) that would (potentially) show up in your Mii plaza.

Gallery of wonderful drawings our little thermal printer received

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