LittlePrinter

Little Printer

A few years ago a design company from London called "berg" introduced the Little Printer. The device basically is a small printer that prints various feeds provided by berg on a daily basis. Feeds like twitter, newspaper articles, trivia and sudoku. For that it uses regular receipt paper. (promo video)

The pricetag was 250 Euros.

In 2015 the company went into hibernation but kept the servers running for the rest of the year. Now, in January 2016 the devices are practically useless without the backend servers. I got mine dirt cheap on ebay. HKay (Diskussion)

The Bridge

The printer does not talk to the internet directly. That's what the extra box called "bridge" is for. It has a RJ45 connector for Ethernet and a ZigBee module.

TODO ADD PHOTOS OF THE BOARD

Right from the start the board offers several unpopulated pinheaders for JTAG and SERIAL. A quick check with the Oscilloscope reveals the pinout. And a logic analyser tells us the required baud settings. Baudrate: 115200 8N1 of course no hardware flow control.

The core of the board is a ATMEL AT91SAM9620.