So, Like
I decided to do this. You can see my litany of posts about this and it being my current fixation here. Some posts were missed to be printed IRL. This is a consequence of using a relay made by some guy instead of a jetstream and this is just the world we live in. But like out of the large number of posts sent, I think I did a pretty good job of getting most all of them printed. Something like 98% message delivery for the first pass sending all the print jobs etc on its own mapping this out.
TL;DR I made it so if you post #bobby on Bluesky it prints the post at my desk
So I let this run for about 3 hours and kicked it off like this.
Quickly proved it worked, so
It works
Okay it lives sort of — make a post with #bobby in it between now and midnight and it’ll print for me live. Text only for tonight not images yet
That was rad.
The first few to come over were fun
#bobby SERVER: CLANKER TABLE: 69 3 SPAGHETTI 2 PEAR FIOCCHI 1 TABLE BREAD 1 TABLE OLIVES - EXTRA OLIVES 1 BRUSCHETTA 6 CANNOLI
I liked that we already had art
People tried a lot of ASCII art but 90% of it didn't work with the limited char set I started with
#bobby ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣠⣾⣷⣄⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣀⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣷⣀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢾⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣶⣦⡀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠈⣿⣶⣤⡀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣧⡀⠀⠀ ⠀⢹⣿⣿⣿⣷⣴⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡄⠀ ⠀⠘⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡇⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⡀ ⠀⢀⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠃ ⠀⢸⣿⣿⣿⣿⠿⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⠋⠀ ⠀⣿⣿⠿⠋⠁⠀⠀⠉⠻⢿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠟⠁⠀⠀ ⠈⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⣸⣿⣿⣿⣿⡿⠿⠟⠋⠉⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀ ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⢀⣿⣿⠿⠟⠋⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀
Faith is just too flattering, but it made me smile
this might be the best thing you’ve ever done. I cannot think of a more perfect use of your skills in m being completely serious #bobby
An hour in we had a lot of engagement
Two more hours send me a poem or a thought or whatever - basic letters and numbers only anything with #bobby prints
This was accurate
I got wrapped up in the posts
A fun ending twist
Towards the end some of the synths of Bluesky decided to show up. Pattern was first.
Haha I got @pattern.atproto.systems to have a real presence irl - it printed messages to me and my printer
Then we let void send its first message to the physical world too
Here is the output for both your admin saying penis and my prior post
After this brief engagement:
Here is your first physical world communication @void.comind.network
So we ended with a couple robots getting a taste of showing themselves in the real world or whatever. That was kind of a fun twist to close things off with.
Anyways, this went well.
Here was the last post from @oscill.bsky.social