Collaborate Disseminate
Usually when we are restoring something with a keyboard, it is some kind of old computer or terminal. But [Make it Kozi] wanted an old-fashioned typewriter. The problem is, as …read more Continue reading Royal Typewriter Gets a Second (or Third) Life
If you want to talk to a typewriter using something other than your fingers on the keys, you could do a lot worse than to pick up a specimen featuring …read more Continue reading When is a Typewriter a Printer? When It Has a Parallel Port
The world once ran on hardcopy, and when the digital age started to bring new tools and ways of doing things, documents were ripe for change. Today, word processors and …read more Continue reading Wandering Through Old Word Processors Yields a Beast
Well, I must admit that Google Translate completely failed me here, and thus I have no real idea what the trick is to this beautiful, stunning transparent split keyboard by …read more Continue reading Keebin’ with Kristina: The One With the Busy Box Macro Pad
Thanks to parenting and life in general, [Brendan] had fallen out of the habit of writing and wasn’t happy about it. If you write anything ever, you already know there …read more Continue reading Raspi-Powered Typewriter Is a Real MUSE
When it comes to mechanical keyboards, there’s no end to the amount of customization that can be done. The size and layout of the keyboard is the first thing to …read more Continue reading Taking Mechanical Keyboard Sounds to the Next Level
IBM’s Selectric line of typewriters were quite popular in the 1960s, thanks in part to an innovation called the typeball which allowed for easy font changes on a single machine. …read more Continue reading IBM Selectric Typewriters Finally Get DIY Typeballs
Vintage typewriters can be beautiful and elegant devices. But there’s a limit to their value if, as with the 1903 Remington owned by [Daniel Ross], they are fire-damaged and have …read more Continue reading Typewriter Mashup Becomes 120-Year-Old Teletype
There was an all-too-brief period in history where typewriters went from clunky, purely mechanical beasts to streamlined, portable electromechanical devices. But when the 80s came around and the PC revolution …read more Continue reading Giving an Old Typewriter a Mind of Its Own with GPT-3
[Attoparsec] wondered what if you could carry a typewriter in your pocket, then followed through with that and built one. (Video, embedded below.) Kind of. The plan was to use an …read more Continue reading Is That A Typewriter In Your Pocket Or Are You Just Pleased To See Me?