![]() ’ tool of choice for moving electrons back and forth in a wire is an Arduino, with none handy he needed to rig up something with the tools available on hand. Because stock tickers are incredibly simple devices – just a few solenoids and a couple of gears – knew it would be relatively easy to connect one to his laptop. For each of these pulses, the letter wheel would advance by one character and finally print the letter with a great ca-thunk. When stock tickers were in use, they were all connected to a stock ticker circuit that would broadcast stock prices as a sequence of pulses. He may have become quite listless over his spring break, because he decided connect a century-old stock ticker to his laptop. ’s father has had an old stock ticker sitting on a shelf for some time. Although ’s build doesn’t sound like two robots trading blows, there’s no ink needed and no danger of the letter wheel becoming misaligned and misspelling everything.Ĭheck out ’s build in action after the break.Ĭontinue reading “Twittertape Machine Keeps Track Of Your Social Media Stock.” → Posted in classic hacks Tagged ethernet, thermal printer, ticker tape Bringing A 19th Century Stock Ticker Into The 21st Century This ticker machine prints on cash register receipt paper and a very small thermal printer in the base. Unlike the other ticker tape machine we saw this week, did away with the loud clashing of gears and solenoids found in 100-year-old ticker machines. Right now the machine is connected to Ethernet, but he’s planning on adding WiFi and a few batteries for a completely wireless build. Even though the shiny part of the build only holds the roll of paper, it’s still a wonderful build. Interestingly, ’s build didn’t start off as a tarnished lump of 100-year-old brass he built his beautiful ticker machine out of old clock movements he picked up on eBay. A lot has changed in 100 years, as now can be kept apprised of what and ate for breakfast with his Twittertape machine. This machine would print stock and commodity prices and chart these men’s assets climbing higher and higher. During the gilded age, oil magnates, entrepreneurs, and robber barons would have a ticker tape machine in their study.
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