---
title: "I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues"
url: https://daily.dev/posts/i-built-a-receipt-printer-for-github-issues-9-jntgqe9
source_url: https://aschmelyun.com/blog/i-built-a-receipt-printer-for-github-issues/
type: article
source: "Hacker News"
published: 2022-03-25T18:38:37.974Z
updated: 2022-03-25T18:38:37.975Z
tags: ["github", "iot", "php"]
reading_time: 7
upvotes: 42
comments: 9
language: en
---

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# I built a receipt printer for GitHub issues

**[Hacker News](https://daily.dev/sources/hn)** · 7 min read · 42 upvotes · 9 comments

## Summary

Andrew Schmelyun used a receipt printer to print out a ticket each time an issue was added to one of his GitHub repos. The printer uses the ESC/POS command set, for which there's established libraries in a variety of programming languages. He also used an old Raspberry Pi Zero W to connect from the internet to the printer.

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## Community discussion

Top comments from developers on daily.dev.

**@athulak** · 1 upvotes

> Nice way to waste paper

**@matteosacchetto** · 1 upvotes

> Extremely cool idea! 👏💪🏼

**@macdrien** · 0 upvotes

> Excellent XD

**@andypiper** · 0 upvotes

> Cool way to use an IoT hardware hack to list and deliver GitHub issues

**@soetch** · 0 upvotes

> This is so dope omg

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