{"id":4362,"date":"2013-05-31T06:07:21","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:07:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/178.62.14.192\/?p=4362"},"modified":"2013-05-31T06:07:21","modified_gmt":"2013-05-31T06:07:21","slug":"weather-forecast-on-a-raspberrypi-printer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=4362","title":{"rendered":"Weather forecast on a #RaspberryPi printer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2013\/05\/raspi-wx\/\"><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Weather forecast on a RaspberryPi printer \u2013 now with added Pi | Blog My Wiki!\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/05\/8839130078_53792ae6db1.jpg\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. There&#8217;s also a great script to monitor a DropBox folder that you might find interesting.\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2013\/05\/raspi-wx\/\">Read more here<\/a>. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.suppertime.co.uk\/blogmywiki\/2012\/12\/pi-poems\/\">Giles previously used the Pi and a thermal printer to print out poems with the Little Box of Poems<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Giles Booth has mashed together a GoFreeRange printer and a Raspberry Pi to print out a weather forecast every morning. This is a fascinating project that should be reproduceable by others. 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