SMS Printer

Description

The text message printer was an idea to create a new tangible medium for daily communication.

Replacing the screen of a mobile phone by a thermal printer, text messages will no longer be displayed; but printed! Afterward you can rip off the new message and keep it closer to you, pin it or pass it away.

The project involved three major hardware components; an Arduino UNO, GSM Shield and Thermal Printer. The enclosure on the pictures was a single piece made with MDF wood and laser cuter.

This is still an ongoing project, I'm looking into making a smaller and more easily reproducible case to hold the hardware that you could cut and assemble yourself ! If you have some suggestions or ideas, I would love to hear from you.

SMS PRINTER PARTS

- Arduino UNO

- GSM Module SIM900 (ElecFreaks)

- Thermal Printer (Adafruit)

- SIM Card

- MDF wood for the lasered enclosure

Components

1 × Arduino UNO

1 × Mini Thermal Receipt Printer Adafruit

1 × GPRS/GSM Module-EFCom Pro Arduino compatible GSM module (ElecFreaks)

Discussions

Marco Justiniano wrote 09/01/2015 at 16:26

Will you ever upload the code?

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Marco Justiniano wrote 09/01/2015 at 16:25

Excellent project!!! This is great!!!

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Tiago Damian wrote 04/26/2015 at 20:04

good idea, Post some logs when possible.

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Jasmine Brackett wrote 08/15/2014 at 22:34

Hello sabik.sami, you've not updated your project for a while. Now is the time to add a few more details to your project to give it the best chance of going through to the next round of The Hackaday Prize.

By August 20th you must have the following:
- A video. It should be less than 2 minutes long describing your project. Put it on YouTube (or Youku), and add a link to it on your project page. This is done by editing your project (edit link is at the top of your project page) and adding it as an "External Link"
- At least 4 Project Logs
- A system design document
- Links to code repositories, and remember to mention any licenses or permissions needed for your project. For example, if you are using software libraries you need to document that information.

You should also try to highlight how your project is 'Connected' and 'Open' in the details and video.

There are a couple of tutorial video's with more info here: http://hackaday.com/2014/07/26/4-minutes-to-entry/

Good luck!

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Tiago wrote 07/06/2014 at 16:29

This is nice, you should share the number and put up a livestream camera pointing to it

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Nameless_12 wrote 06/24/2014 at 07:52

nice

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Adam Fabio wrote 06/07/2014 at 18:57

Thanks for submitting your project to The Hackaday Prize! Your parts list/ BOM is a great start, but don't forget to link in your source and schematics for the openness portion of the contest.

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dumi.gumede1 wrote 06/07/2014 at 08:04

Good idea

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dumi.gumede1 wrote 06/06/2014 at 19:00

But then you still have to teach your grandma how to print the sms whereas with your cell phone, everyone can help her, even the neighbour's children can help her

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sabik.sami wrote 06/06/2014 at 23:34

The SMS box is stand alone and plug and play ;) SMS prints automatically when received.

Maybe that wasn't very clear (yet). I'll upload the code and give more details soon !

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dumi.gumede1 wrote 06/05/2014 at 21:46

The project does not seem useful

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sabik.sami wrote 06/05/2014 at 21:51

It doesn't have to be useful ! It is just a different way of receiving digital based communication and bringing SMS out of the screen :)

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DeepSOIC wrote 06/06/2014 at 08:18

No, it IS useful. I'm not able to teach my grandma to read messages on the mobile phone, and I would love to have one such SMS printer. Additionally, it'd be great if this thing could act as a speakerphone.

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earthlings wrote 06/04/2014 at 12:50

Cool project :)

Looking forward to see the final version!

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genisserosee wrote 06/04/2014 at 12:47

Wonderful project !

Like it when it glows in the dark :)!

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clara.wolf wrote 06/03/2014 at 11:45

A struggle against the ephemeral nature of digital communication.

Great project!!

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Eric Evenchick wrote 05/12/2014 at 10:57

Neat concept! Still trying to think of a practical application, I'm sure there's some fun things that this could be applied to.

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