An LLM reverse engineered his thermal printer and wrote the web app he prints from

An LLM reversed a thermal printer protocol and wrote a web app he prints from.

How it works

An LLM reverses the thermal printer's protocol
Writes a web app he prints from

Why it’s worth knowing

Undocumented protocols are just documentation that fights back.

Where it’s from

Summarized from a public post on news.ycombinator.com. See the original ↗

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