Building a magic wizard quill to send my wife cute messages | Ye Olde Fax Machine

[@omkarbansode6305]

I guess i am lucky that i got your channel in my recommendation

[@jeremyl7256]

For your paper Slot, you could cut a bigger hole and just 3d print and nice guide that covers it and goes over the top.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Good idea! That'd also let me attach some metal teeth to make tearing the paper a little easier, which is something else I've been thinking about adding.

[@leef_me8112]

@@MakeFunStuff for the slot you can "score" the wood on the faces with an exacto knife so that the tearout is minimal. But the 3d print idea sounds good for this specific location and purpose.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Good idea! I hadn't considered scoring, I'll give that a try next time.

[@manyshadesofbrown]

What about a Dremel router bit?

[@JonDotExe]

11:05 😂 this is the kind of quality content I come here for.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you! I'll have to start sending her entire books to get through all those rolls.

[@m.shehryar5341]

This content is highly underrated

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you!

[@nerdscorpx]

I love you video! Im so glad you came up on my google news!!!

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!

[@nerdscorpx]

@@MakeFunStuff you should do the video on how to set up the software. I want to make this I just never have used MQTT at all.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Alright, I'll put it on the list!

[@DP-kj7ke]

Had no idea you could arduino a thermal printer, but I’m a noob to such things…Alexa, print my shopping list! Sometimes paper is just more convenient. Great content. Thx

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you, glad you enjoyed!

[@sejungsong]

Directed from my Reddit question from yesterday. What a lovely project! There is definitely a qualitative similarity to my concept haha. So let's keep in touch here and on Reddit!

[@MakeFunStuff]

Sounds good, and I'm glad you enjoyed! Definitely interested in seeing how your project progresses, keep me updated!

[@GrimReaperCalls]

Really cool idea, and great video! Just my kind of humour as well lol.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thanks, glad you enjoyed!

[@brunodigaetano2035]

Awesome! Love your work!

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you very much!

[@bluegizmo1983]

6:04 .... That actually explains A LOT! 🤣

[@MakeFunStuff]

Funny, my wife said something similar!

[@IsmaelVazquezJr]

The hashtag equals equals equals capital D made me lol xD

[@JeremyCook]

I thought Mosquitto was a server that you could set up on a Raspberry Pi etc. Is there somewhere that you can simply register to use Mosquitto's server?

[@MakeFunStuff]

You can definitely run Mosquitto on a Raspberry Pi, but Mosquitto.org hosts a few test servers that are free for public use (although they ask to not put too much load on it). It's really convenient, especially for testing; more info here: test.mosquitto.org/

[@JeremyCook]

@@MakeFunStuff Interesting, thanks!

[@MakeFunStuff]

No problem, happy tinkering!

[@adambeedle]

Awesome video mate

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you!

[@diegolopez906]

Love it. Could this be integrated into homeassistant?

[@MakeFunStuff]

Absolutely, Home Assistant also leverages MQTT and this can connect to any arbitrary MQTT broker. Some additional work would be required to get it to integrate, but I don't think it'd be too much effort. I've been meaning to get Home Assistant set up for quite a while but haven't gotten around to it yet, otherwise that's probably what I'd have used here.

[@diegolopez906]

@@MakeFunStuff great !!!, I can think of many uses for this within home assistant automations. Unfortunately I don't have much knowledge, I'm just copying gurus like you ... I will try to treat and annoy some people with my questions, to see what I get. Thank you very much, this is great, you are very creative !!!

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you very much!

[@lilotus6275]

Love the video and the idea. Is the code for this aviable somewhere?

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thanks, glad you liked it! The code is in Bitbucket, and there are links to the repositories (which also include circuit diagrams) at the end of the video description. Enjoy!

[@lilotus6275]

@@MakeFunStuff Thanks!! Want to recreate this to some degree for a long distance friend of mine.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Awesome, let me know how it goes!

[@lilotus6275]

@@MakeFunStuff I don't know much about coding and stuff. Am I able to send messages from everywhere if I am connected to the MQTT server?

[@MakeFunStuff]

Yep, the device listens to the server, which can receive messages from anywhere in the world.

[@VCarm90]

can you make it into somekind of a telegraph printer?

[@smitty.c]

do you think this would be a challenging first project? i absolutely love the idea but am new to alot of whats probably implemented

[@MakeFunStuff]

Glad you like it! I don't think it would be too challenging for a first project, no individual part of it is too complicated and each part should be very similar to guides or tutorials you can find online, and all my code is available (see the link in the description). Good luck, and if you do end up making it let me know!

[@smitty.c]

thank you i will! i love your content too man keep at it

[@leef_me8112]

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[@donvukovic]

Will you make available your Android messenger code available ? Or did I miss it ?

[@MakeFunStuff]

Whoops! I meant to and apparently forgot. I'll put that up in a day or so and let you know (although I'm very much not an Android developer so I apologize in advance!)

[@donvukovic]

@@MakeFunStuff I too am a novice and looking for successful code to learn from.

[@MakeFunStuff]

Hello again, I've updated the video description with a link to the repository containing the Android code. Enjoy!

[@danielbatista8760]

That was interesting

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thank you!

[@jmisc]

A tip for wifey gift: easy to clean, not making her having to do stuffs regularly she starts thinking whether it can be regifted.

[@jmisc]

Jokes aside: good job!

[@MakeFunStuff]

Thanks!