Talk:Paintball Gun Printer

From Bob's Basement

[edit] Fish says ...

I'm guessing you're going to use the RCX brick? I have one of those too, we can combine resources if you want :)

Now, for printing characters. I say the easiest thing to do would be to use a binary font, and build a bitmap from that. Once you've built the bitmap, you can then simply scan the bitmap, and everywhere there is a 1 fire the gun. That'd probably be a lot quicker than printing each character individually.

I have a feeling a 24 hour hack session is required to get this done.

[edit] What?

In as few words as possible, "I don't follow."

Doing a letter as a series of instructions that I can do. How would I do it as a bit map? How would I convert the bitmap image of 'hello' into a series of instructions? I am assuming you would use black (text/image) as fire and white (free/blank space) as don't fire. Would you write a script that interpreted an image and spat out source code?

I would be lying if I said I knew what I was doing when it comes to graphics.