Receipt Racer makes printing fun, wastes more paper than you ever thought possible (video)

Sure, you may use your printer to spit out spreadsheets, but how about hooking up a DualShock 3 to play it like a online game? That’s exactly what Joshua Noble and the undef duo did during a workshop associated with OFFF last week, and the result’s stunning (if not hilarious). The trio coded a game in openFrameworks , titled Receipt Racer, which uses a thermal receipt printer modded with a “light beamer” to display game info and represent a car, a DS3 to manipulate it, and a laptop to attach the devices and run the software. A random track with obstacles gets rapidly printed while a player attempts to navigate it without crashing — kind of like Lane Splitter — or until the paper roll runs out after 164 feet. There is a tree-loving web browser version and the whole details of ways it really works within the source link below. We scored just over 1,400 points; tell us the way you do inside the comments.

[Thanks, Jesse]