code Turning a pickup truck into a giant dot matrix printer Rusty Blazenhoff

gadgets Chunky business-class all-in-one PC has built-in dot matrix printer Rob Beschizza

Science Scientists determine which paper makes the worst paper cuts Gail Sherman

michael jackson Listen to Robert Plant as a forklift, Kurt Cobain as a coffee grinder, and Michael Jackson as a dot matrix printer Jennifer Sandlin

music Sweet Dreams played by an orchestra of electronic gadgets Rob Beschizza

design Fantastic emulation of classic Apple II program The Print Shop (1984) David Pescovitz

1980s Man creates stop-motion animation with dot matrix printer art he created in 1982 David Pescovitz

sounds Ah, the sound of a dot matrix printer! Jason Weisberger

Uber in the 1980s Mark Frauenfelder

happy mutants 3D printing arbitrary shapes without sprues, by embedding them in 3D-printed clear plastic Cory Doctorow

artbots A dot-matrix printer that taps out a picture using a pencil Clive Thompson

Business Bid on old computers, speakers, radios, and other junk from the bowels of RadioShack David Pescovitz

Things I miss Things I miss: the music of dot matrix printing Jason Weisberger

DRONES How Dan Shapiro created the most-backed game in Kickstarter history Mark Frauenfelder