Thermal Printer Linux Teletype

I used a raspberry pi with a thermal printer and grabbed the terminal to the printer similar to an old-school style teletype

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Inspiration

I was reading about teletypes and tty0 in some Wikipedia articles and thought it would be cool to make one with a raspberry pi

What it does

uses the thermal printer as a terminal emulator

How we built it

I developed the program in c++ and combinging some low level c system() calls to execute commands

Challenges we ran into

getting the output from system() into a string to print, setting up ssh for the rasp pi for some reason, getting a ps/2 keyboard to work on the pi

Accomplishments that we're proud of

it works

What we learned

how to do system() calls, using /dev/usb/ls0 to use as an output filestream to print text to the thermal printer

What's next for Thermal Printer Linux Teletype

getting the ps/2 keyboard working, allowing more advanced multiline programs to run

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