Hooked a cheap receipt printer to Claude for proactive briefings, notifications and even bird profiles
beglen · x · 2026-10-22
The author bought a cheap NETUM receipt printer and hooked it to Claude for proactive printing: a recap after each session, a briefing before meetings, urgent notifications mid-meeting, profiles of new birds at the feeder, and a daily album recommendation with an Apple Music QR code. The receipts even itemize token usage and API cost per session (e.g., 48,905,276 tokens / $16.64), making AI work logs physical.
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