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# Getting my daily news from a dot matrix printer
- URL: https://werd.io/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/
- Published: 2024-10-04T15:28:27.000Z
- Updated: 2024-10-04T15:28:27.000Z
- Author: Ben Werdmuller
- Tags: Media, Notable links, #Import 2025-06-11 21:47

\[[Andrew Schmelyun](https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/)\]

Following [my piece about reading the news on paper](https://werd.io/2024/is-there-still-a-place-for-print-in-the-future), I came across this post from Anrew Schmelyun:

> "I recently purchased a dot matrix printer from eBay, and thought it would be a great excuse to have a custom "front page" printed out and ready for me each day. So, that's what I built!"

What a neat idea: he's called a few APIs (the New York Times, Reddit, [Open-Meteo](https://open-meteo.com/en/docs), and so on), installed it to run on a Raspberry Pi, and connected it to an old-school dot matrix printer to create a kind of [Telex](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telex) newspaper each morning,

I'd thought about doing this with an e-ink display, but honestly, why *not* just print it out?

I think I would want to pick some different news sources (the NYT is no longer my go-to) and leave out Reddit in favor of links that my contacts had shared on, say, Mastodon, but this is really fun. I might try and put together something similar, albeit with my existing laser printer rather than a dot matrix setup.

[#Media](https://werd.io/tag/Media)

\[[Link](https://aschmelyun.com/blog/getting-my-daily-news-from-a-dot-matrix-printer/)\]