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by david-given 2419 days ago
Old-school IBM daisywheels actually have an exposed port for controlling them remotely. You can drive one with an Arduino and with sufficient lateral thinking you can draw graphics by microstepping and printing full stops. The protocol's funky, though, and the ribbons aren't cheap.

https://github.com/tofergregg/IBM-Wheelwriter-Hack