homemade arduino printer
If you want to make your own high resolution printer (maybe not so high res), you are at the right place. This Instructable will show you how to do with two dead cd/dvd drive and a pen (pilot, whiteboard marker, whatever you have) at the best lego-printer style.Here is how our printer will work: we type any message in terminal then the message will be printed (as dot matrix) and after the message is printed the program will wait for another message. For this magnificent printer you will need:1) 1 x Arduino (I've used the Duemilanove)2) 2 x H-Bridge (SN754410)3) 3 x small dc motors from any cd/dvd drive4) 3 x switches from the same cd/dvd drive5) A pen or marker6) Wire7) Rubber string8) Sheave9) Stick with round rubber like the rollers in a real printer, the wheels from a toy car should work.10) Acrylic, wood or whatever seal you have to build the structure.11) 5v and 9v power supplyIf you have an old printer you can use its structure and save some time to build one. Once you have ...