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Charlie Fish
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retired

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Dot Matrix by Charlie Fish

December 30th, 2007 8:33 PM

INSTRUCTIONS: Restore a dot matrix printer to its former glory

OR

Retire a dot matrix printer and find a creative re-use for it

I completed the second part of this task. The story of this dot matrix printer starts here.

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After I had taken it to pieces, I wanted to make something out of it. I was inspired by this picture of a hardware store's artfully presented range of screws, hooks, nuts and bolts:

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Here's my version, using almost all of the internal parts of the dot matrix printer:

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It looks quite nice hanging on my wall!



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Charlie Fish is on a nigh-impossible mission to complete every single pure-EquivalenZ task by the end of the era. Prior tasks:

- Take Apart
- R/C Fire
- Keep Your Eyes Peeled
- Virtual Nation Building
- Lucid Dreaming 2: EquivalenZ
- Dodging
- Nintend0
- Spam Poetry
- Correspond with a spammer
- Cellular Breakdown
- SFZero Text Updates
- Objectify a Subject
- Attachment Theory
- Bathe Electonics

- smaller


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posted by The Revolutionary on December 30th, 2007 9:12 PM

When we die, I hope we are all converted into wall ornaments.

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posted by Lincøln on December 30th, 2007 9:29 PM

Beautiful.