{"id":477,"date":"2012-11-26T20:50:11","date_gmt":"2012-11-27T01:50:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/michael.schwanzer.info\/blog\/?p=477"},"modified":"2012-11-26T20:50:11","modified_gmt":"2012-11-27T01:50:11","slug":"typewriter-to-printer-conversion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/michael.schwanzer.info\/blog\/typewriter-to-printer-conversion\/","title":{"rendered":"Typewriter to Printer Conversion"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Earlier this year I got myself a typewriter<\/a>. I was on my way home and spotted this beauty at the local second hand \/ old \/ random things store. The owner told me he wants just 50$ for it since it was broken<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

Challenge accepted.<\/strong><\/p>\n

50$ later I found myself schlepping this very heavy piece of solid steel home (almost 100 years old and purely mechanical).<\/p>\n

Took me about 15 min to fix it. Just the spring that pulls back the cartridge was disconnected.<\/p>\n

It is a 12 – 12 Remington<\/a> in case you are interested.<\/p>\n

Since it was working I had fun typing some letters on it. Learned fast why word processing \/ printers won over typewriters. Anyway, …<\/p>\n

Since it is such a beauty and working well, I was day dreaming about combining two things, the ease of word processing on your computer and the character of those “hand” typed letters. (crazy maybe?) . Imagine you hit print on your computer and the typewriter over there starts typing it for you.<\/p>\n

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So I put my idea on twitter<\/a>\u00a0and soon I got a lead to\u00a0Jonathan M. Guberman,\u00a0here in Toronto<\/a>, who did something like it already. Thanks, Jennie<\/a>.<\/p>\n

However, I what I want to do with is is a bit different:<\/p>\n

Connect the typewriter to a twitter account and load it with endless paper while a webcam is showing you \u00a0how your tweets to it get ‘printed’<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Reason to do it for me is to get back into hardware again with an arduino<\/a>\u00a0and to get more out of this typewriter than just sitting around and look good. (some learning & entertainment, mostly, I guess)<\/p>\n

Why don’t you just get a typewriter font for your computer?<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

– well, that is just not the same.<\/p>\n

Things I figured out already:<\/p>\n