18 year old maker and developer Nikodem Bartnik from Poland, has created and awesome DIY Arduino-based dot-matrix printer, capable of creating art on paper 55 cm wide and as long as you need, thanks ...

The dot matrix clock was built without the use of a regular Arduino board but uses the ATmega168 with Arduino bootloader and assembled on a breadboard. An RTC clock compensated by temperature is used ...

Some businesses still use dot matrix printers to generate invoices, forms and other documents. Unlike modern laser printers, a dot matrix printer has a single print head and an inked ribbon. Neither ...

A while back, [DragonMinded] picked up a bunch of old arcade and pinball parts from a guy on Craigslist. These parts sat around for a while until a really neat plasma dot matrix display was found in ...

While laser and inkjet printers are increasingly popular, older technology still has value in daily life. Dot matrix printers are similar to manual typewriters, with a history dating back over 100 ...

The LA36 was the first widely successful dot matrix printer and made printing faster and more efficient during an age when paper ruled the office world. Given that so many documents can now be stored ...

[Credit: The Life of Kenneth] Twitter tickers have been around for a little while now, but this creative use of an old dot matrix printer by a modder named Kenneth is really a fun way to utilize old ...