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Detroit Metropolitan Wayne County Airport has a short story machine. You push a button, and it prints a story for you. (lemmy.nz)
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[–] blackbeans@lemmy.zip 3 points 3 days ago (2 children)

Do you want to open source the stories or the machine?

The concept is good but technically it seems dead easy: three buttons, a raspberry pi or similar and a thermal printer connect via usb.

[–] a_non_monotonic_function@lemmy.world 3 points 3 days ago

Does sound like a fun little project. Probably a DB or two online with an API to fiddle with.

[–] MonaySimpson@lemmy.ml 1 points 3 days ago

I just want instructions to follow. I can maybe for the hardware but finding the stories is another thing.

I see their site has links to all the stories but I'm not sure how to call one at random and format out only the story.