Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2014 00:25:11 -0800
From: Bret Victor
Subject: Re: research gallery / wall-blog
Okay, so this seems to be more-or-less working.

Send an email with a link and a picture to **************** (to be renamed):


Go to http://worrydream.com/ResearchGallery/label.html  (You may need to wait a little bit and refresh for the new message to show up)



Hit the "Add to Gallery" button, and head over to the printer:


(Currently only prints if you are attached to my computer, but when we have the kiosk server up and running, it should print if you're on the lab's network.)


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Notes:

I'm using http://www.inboxapp.com (hosted) as the mail API.  It's mostly pretty good.  It makes attachments a little hard to get to (because authentication is required), so my app uploads images to my server and serves them from there, which is cumbersome.

The printing hack is a node server which renders the label using phantomjs and prints it using an automator workflow.

I got a laserjet printer (which I don't like much, and may return), and a bunch of different sizes of labels.  Including clear (?) and magnetic (!).