Can anyone translate this for me?

Question

I want to try to reprogram an HP inkjet printer to work as a computer controlled robot for a science project and have been doing some research and hunting to see if this is possible.. I found this webpage that describes some stuff about it a bit..

http://www.searchlores.org/realicra/hp_slobo.htm

And here is the blurb I am trying to decypher.. could someone explain what is being said here.. and how I could go about it? Could the method he describes here be used for what I want to do? And how difficult would it be to write?

I don't need it to print.. I just want to use it's motors and positioning hardware ina precise and repeatable manner.

"""A much more funny approach is creating real-time scriptings with TCL (that again, i'm not gonna explain here) to drive the printer's internals.(--> absolutely useless if not for fun or hacking).
* note also that creating your own halftoning matrix is in the best case a total waste of time, unless you're working for a company developin

Answer 1

Write to the MIT's engineering/robotics department. I'm sure they would help you.

Answer 2

Dear

I am terribly sorry to disappoint you but I completely understood all that was written in the link. Was quit an interesting reading as I build and plan robots but did not think to apply same ideas to the mechanics of printers. Any way sounds to me the simplest way you can go by is rip the printer mother board out and replace it with a built circuit you can program. Once you connect your own circuit to the existing motors programming it to do what ever you want is a cake. The problem with using the original mother board is that you do not know the feeds and I/O s in and out and how the processor works exactly. Again building your own control unit can be cheap and easy solution to this problem.
There are some pretty cheap companies out there to do just that type costume made PCB's in a google search.
Here is one I found:
http://www.4pcb.com/500free.htm