maple "mavica" syrup [6502] @mavica_again@computerfairi.es

if i can control the printhead directly and bypass the entire controller so i can print whatever pattern i want instead of just text, that would be ideal. i just have no idea how to approach it

i've tried to do this with an AVR board, but from what i understand GPIOs aren't really suited for closing contacts like this. maybe with a ground/voltage reference i could pull a pin to the same value, but i'm not entirely sure if that would work or what the circuit needs to look like not to damage any of the parts.

here's a problem i've been thinking about for a couple years now

i got a Typestar 10-II, it is immensely cost cut and barely has any features.

i want to make it into an ASCII printer. i don't have a logic analyzer to figure out the communication or levels between the controller and the print head. i thought about faking keypresses but i'm not sure what i can use to close a circuit like a key. by my account if i wanted to use 4066s it would go out of hand in part count fast.

what would you do?

i'm like if a guy was a girl

i'm like if a girl had boobs

"you shouldn't feel bad about not doing anything all day, capitalism is a human construct!!! 😊😊😊💜💜💜" i don't feel bad because i'm not productive in the capitalist sense. i feel bad because i've done nothing but scroll social media all day. being productive for the self regardless of capitalism is mental health too. fuck your toxic positivity

i wish the united states a very get a country name that doesn't usurp my continent's name

dwm.exe was somehow choking it. killed the process, nothing seems to have changed behaviour so i'm not sure what from it was choking, but now my GPU usage cratered.

my GPU is idling at 80c... 🥲

i've also posted it on my non-tumblr blog now: https://maple.pet/blog/solving-a-base64-mystery-nobody-asked-for

several hours later here's a writeup on how i did:

https://www.tumblr.com/maplesynth/742691202686730240

spoilers, i didn't recover the whole JPEG. but about half of it is intelligible

now i just need to sample the whole fuckin base64 alphabet

sickos voice after a few hours of python yes ha ha yes

no conventional OCR does not work on this at all