Andrew Schmelyun used a receipt printer to print out a ticket each time an issue was added to one of his GitHub repos. The printer uses the ESC/POS command set, for which there's established libraries in a variety of programming languages. He also used an old Raspberry Pi Zero W to connect from the internet to the printer.

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Hardware listSending data to the printerConnecting to GitHubThe final codeWrapping up and next steps
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