motherfucker god damn it im all "oh ill add a thermal printer to the #PoloroidBadge then it will like an actual fucking poloroid and then i come to find that the thermal print head components are like some big fucking secret and theres an even a hackaday project long abandoned to make an open source controller board for them and there are just countless usb/ttl controller boards for them but no specs or schematics anywhere and im like fuck it.

ill do it myself, give me the fucking datasheet

ill add this motherfucker directly onto the board on my camera design AND ill make an open hardware controller board for it for you motherfuckers too.

#PoloroidBadge feature creep tracking now looks like

.esp32 som
.ov2640 camera
.4.2" epaper display
.LEDs
.buttons and switches and cap touch
.LIPO boost/charge
.ambient light sensing
.SD card
.haptic vibrate
.accelerometer
.stacked and plated PCB-is-its-own-enclosure design
.and now also a thermal print head and motor lmao