Comments on: How it Works http://www.usbtypewriter.com Turn your typewriter into a USB keyboard! Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:18:11 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 By: admin http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-3068 admin Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:15:57 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-3068 Yes, it works with XP and win 98. Yes, it works with XP and win 98.

]]> By: admin http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-3066 admin Fri, 23 Sep 2011 20:14:11 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-3066 Unfortunately, this mod is only for manuals. The selectric uses a very different mechanism, and anyway it would be dangerous for tinkerers to play with the high voltages and spinning gears. Unfortunately, this mod is only for manuals. The selectric uses a very different mechanism, and anyway it would be dangerous for tinkerers to play with the high voltages and spinning gears.

]]> By: Nullcast http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2979 Nullcast Fri, 16 Sep 2011 02:53:02 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2979 Did you ever try building a sensor bar by resistance anywhere in this process? I was just thinking that If you set up a bar of some metal with significant resistivity and connected one end to ground and the other end to +5v you might be able to read which key is pressed by the voltage it carries when touching the bar with a single analog input. No active scanning required and you might even be able to set it up as an interrupt or something. Or did you already try analog read methods like that and they had too high a noise ratio? Did you ever try building a sensor bar by resistance anywhere in this process? I was just thinking that If you set up a bar of some metal with significant resistivity and connected one end to ground and the other end to +5v you might be able to read which key is pressed by the voltage it carries when touching the bar with a single analog input. No active scanning required and you might even be able to set it up as an interrupt or something. Or did you already try analog read methods like that and they had too high a noise ratio?

]]> By: Matt http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2917 Matt Thu, 08 Sep 2011 00:37:55 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2917 i think this would be cooler if the typewriter simply stored the information. Maybe just records the text to sd card? Then you can transfer when you want to go 'soft'. This way maybe all you would need is some batteries and an sd card, and you are on the road Hunter S. style, with a back up digital copy anywhere you go. Would be much more a rescue from obsolence this way - cuz whats the point if u have to plugged into an iMac or Ipad? It should be about freedom from those things. Of course you would want the piece of mind it defintely recorded to the memory card - but then! You would always have the hard copy :) - I would defintely buy a machine like this. Because then I could retreat from the computer to write, but return when I needed to go digital ~ i think this would be cooler if the typewriter simply stored the information. Maybe just records the text to sd card? Then you can transfer when you want to go ’soft’. This way maybe all you would need is some batteries and an sd card, and you are on the road Hunter S. style, with a back up digital copy anywhere you go. Would be much more a rescue from obsolence this way – cuz whats the point if u have to plugged into an iMac or Ipad? It should be about freedom from those things. Of course you would want the piece of mind it defintely recorded to the memory card – but then! You would always have the hard copy :) – I would defintely buy a machine like this. Because then I could retreat from the computer to write, but return when I needed to go digital ~

]]> By: PC modding http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2783 PC modding Thu, 18 Aug 2011 15:18:25 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2783 It had been some time since I visited web site with such quality information. Thansk quite a bit for the useful info It had been some time since I visited web site with such quality information. Thansk quite a bit for the useful info

]]> By: Aliyah Williamson http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2663 Aliyah Williamson Thu, 28 Jul 2011 22:43:37 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2663 Grand text! Just to let you know that I got a hyperlink to your site from Christian Dillstrom, the mobile + social media marketing expert - so you must be doing a superb job? Grand text! Just to let you know that I got a hyperlink to your site from Christian Dillstrom, the mobile + social media marketing expert – so you must be doing a superb job?

]]> By: Worst http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2472 Worst Sat, 25 Jun 2011 10:29:31 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2472 Great gizmo. Reminds me of my 12-year old niece, who for the first time in her life saw a typewriter in my room and said: 'Wow, cool! A keyboard with a built-in printer!' Put it on my blog also! http://www.sodemieter.nl/worsts-gizmohoekje Good luck! Great gizmo. Reminds me of my 12-year old niece, who for the first time in her life saw a typewriter in my room and said: ‘Wow, cool! A keyboard with a built-in printer!’
Put it on my blog also!

http://www.sodemieter.nl/worsts-gizmohoekje

Good luck!

]]> By: Dan http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2401 Dan Thu, 16 Jun 2011 09:07:21 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2401 This is great stuff! How do you implement arrow keys (as mentioned in the video)? Do you sacrifice some of the lesser used keys or will it be done via the function key in the next firmware revision? This is great stuff! How do you implement arrow keys (as mentioned in the video)? Do you sacrifice some of the lesser used keys or will it be done via the function key in the next firmware revision?

]]> By: Mark Carter http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2321 Mark Carter Mon, 30 May 2011 19:28:39 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2321 Have you thought about making them Wi-Fi and eliminating the cord? Have you thought about making them Wi-Fi and eliminating the cord?

]]> By: Richard Lecours http://www.usbtypewriter.com/design-files/how-it-works/comment-page-1#comment-2276 Richard Lecours Tue, 24 May 2011 05:45:06 +0000 http://www.usbtypewriter.com/?page_id=51#comment-2276 This is so cool. I had just been wanting to indulge an urge to buy an antique typewriter, but how much better it is if it's a keyboard too! How do you handle the alt, control or command (for Macs) keys in this set up? I'm assuming one makes do without it, as you can't really press multiple keys at the same time? This is so cool. I had just been wanting to indulge an urge to buy an antique typewriter, but how much better it is if it’s a keyboard too!

How do you handle the alt, control or command (for Macs) keys in this set up? I’m assuming one makes do without it, as you can’t really press multiple keys at the same time?

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