On Thu, 26 Jan 2017, Evan Koblentz via vcf-midatlantic wrote:
I'd be all for someone doing this using period equipment at VCF East.
It isn't easy to get good results even with modern equipment, but of course not impossible with vintage. ;)
To clarify: what we would need is a single person to say, "I will do it," and then to come through. :) If someone steps up (soon) then we would include this in the event marketing. It can't be one of those "you should" or "someone should" or "if I have time" things.
Well said. I definitely can't and won't commit to it for the event. But, dot-matrix and ASCII output is on my "feature request" list (i.e. Raspberry Pi-based camera+thermal printer photobooth we built. It didn't make the cut for the Maker Faire we presented at a few months ago -- mainly because I was eschewing the modern heavy-weight software that would make it easier. In other words, if David doesn't beat me to it, in the next few months I'll have something that could be portable to a less-well-endowed but more interesting system. -- Jameel Akari