esp32-usb-to-airprint
Add AirPrint / AirScan support to your old printer, using just a cheap ESP32-S3
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GITHUB · launched Oct 26, 2026 · 205 upvotes (top 6%) · 0 views
Niche: open-source hardware and maker electronics · 175 launches, 9 in the last 7 days ▼ -36% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Horizontal
- Hardware & robotics
- Prosumer
- Not AI
- Hobby / open-source project
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Could you build this?
Partial The web UI and setup are simple, but making a USB printer appear as an AirPrint or eSCL network printer on an ESP32-S3 requires embedded USB host and printing-protocol work that vibe coding alone is unlikely to deliver reliably.
What it would actually take: The stack is embedded C or Rust on ESP-IDF with USB host class support for printer devices, plus an IPP/AirPrint and eSCL server running on the microcontroller. The hard parts are the USB printer class quirks across models and the tight memory and timing constraints, which need embedded systems and printing-protocol expertise.
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 121 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #8 of 122 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 341 days after the earliest competitor.
- print-server-esp32-s3 · github · 2026-10-30 · 28 upvotes · similarity 0.53
- read_pico_firmware · github · 2026-09-16 · 9 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- diy-fido-key · github · 2026-10-22 · 23 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- I wrote a small lib to turn a USB gamepad into a Bluetooth one · hn · 2025-12-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- air-pen · github · 2026-10-17 · 26 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- Uulen Print · ph · 2026-11-07 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.44
- PrintRight · ph · 2026-09-28 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.42
- AIRobo Studio · ph · 2026-10-19 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.41
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