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I was day dreaming today of doing the opposite: attaching a modern mechanical keyboard to some sort of printing device. I figure an electric typewriter like thi
by jagger27 7y ago
I was day dreaming today of doing the opposite: attaching a modern mechanical keyboard to some sort of printing device. I figure an electric typewriter like this would be ideal for this kind of project. A dot matrix printer might be more hackable...
- jaclaz 7y agoYou mean something like?: https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-typewriter-with-an-old-keyboard-and-a-dot/ https://www.instructables.com/id/Making-a-typewriter-with-an...
- MayeulC 7y agoddevault did something like this pretty recently: https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/30/Line-printer-shell-hack.html https://drewdevault.com/2019/10/30/Line-printer-shell-hack.h...
- aidenn0 7y agoA daisy wheel or type-ball printer would look better. Many of them even had serial interfaces.
- david-given 7y agoOld-school IBM daisywheels actually have an exposed port for controlling them remotely. You can drive one with an Arduino and with sufficient lateral thinking you can draw graphics by microstepping and printing full stops. The protocol's funky, though, and the ribbons aren't cheap. https://github.com/tofergregg/IBM-Wheelwriter-Hack https://github.com/tofergregg/IBM-Wheelwriter-Hack