weird thing @LaserScheme just noticed: US/EUR dreamcasts say "compatible with". JP dreamcasts say "designed for".
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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?
As the United States of America is neither a union of all the states in the Americas nor the only union of states in the Americas, and as such the demonym "American" robs the identities of two whole continents of nations and most of a third continent, I propose that the federal union currently bearing the name should instead recognize the heritage of its first emperor, adopting the name "Nortonian Empire," and recognizing its people with the demonym "Nortonian," effective 1859-09-17.
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