StickerBox — the $99 kids' AI sticker printer — is a mono thermal printer, the same hardware as the ~$100 Brother label printer already on our kitchen counter. The clone took an afternoon. The rest is what the product doesn't do: maps of Dean's actual streets, trip strips with real road signs and drive times, car kits, a calendar that prints its own stickers.
Zero screens. He shows the maps to his friends at school. And "are we there yet?" is now a piece of paper in his hands.
Brother QL-810W + open-source brother_ql · OpenStreetMap + OSRM for roads and drive times · Gemini image gen for the coloring-book art · ~600 lines of Python. The road signs are the real public-domain MUTCD files.
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