Electronics – tommycoolman

Modifying an Inkjet Printer for DTF Printing

Posted on March 28, 2025March 28, 2025 by tommy

Getting Started What is DTF? Direct to Film printing (DTF) is a method of transferring digital designs to shirts or other garments. DTF ink is printed onto a carrier sheet, usually PET (Polyethylene Terephthalate), and the carrier sheet is heat-pressed onto a garment. What type of inkjet printer is needed? Ideally, the printer will need…

Burn an Arduino Bootloader with a Raspberry Pi. The easy way.

Posted on February 4, 2023July 12, 2023 by tommy

This process uses a modified version of the official Raspberry Pi OS (2020-02-13-raspbian-buster-lite.img). It has been configured with the tools necessary to burn an Arduino style bootloader using the Raspberry Pi’s GPIO pins (described here). Brief summary of steps: Wire Raspberry Pi GPIO pins to Arduino ICSP pins Boot the custom Raspberry Pi image Connect a…