TwypeWriter

posted Jun 22nd 2009 12:14pm by
filed under: arduino hacks, home entertainment hacks

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in the oomlout offices, everyone loves twitter. They love it so very much, they decided to find new and fun ways to participate. This one is the TwypeWriter. It searches for a keyword and then physically types out the results for everyone to peruse. There are a couple videos of it in action on their site, as well as the source code to make one for your self.

[via the Hack a Day flickr pool]

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14 Responses to TwypeWriter

  • cptfalcon says:
    June 22, 2009 at 12:55 pm

    Coolest twitter interface yet.

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  • Hirudinea says:
    June 22, 2009 at 1:11 pm

    Nah, hook it up to an old teletype and THAT would be the coolest twitter interface yet.

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  • Del says:
    June 22, 2009 at 1:13 pm

    kinda disappointed. I was hoping for an x-y plotter-like device that actually typed using the keys…

    oh well. guess I’ll have to do it myself

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  • Josh says:
    June 22, 2009 at 1:30 pm

    More twitter hacks…..

    I must say this is an interesting use of technology, however it may be better suited for something more interesting, such as RSS feeds. Possibly coming from hackaday. ;)

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  • bort says:
    June 22, 2009 at 2:03 pm

    fuck off twitter

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  • bort says:
    June 22, 2009 at 2:04 pm

    also: reminds me of http://webprinter.seiz.ch/printer/

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  • Taylor Alexander says:
    June 22, 2009 at 2:46 pm

    we have an old typewriter in storage that’s got a serial port on it, i’ve been meaning to see if it is as simple as something like a terminal, that would pretty much rock!
    -Taylor

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  • Damon says:
    June 22, 2009 at 3:04 pm

    So much for going “Green”…cool nonetheless!

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  • greycode says:
    June 22, 2009 at 4:04 pm

    I wish twitter would just roll over, cough twice, then die choking on it’s own blood. What a waste of bandwidth.

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  • nemo says:
    June 22, 2009 at 4:31 pm

    I just found an old electronic typewriter in my attic, interesting coincidence, although twitter seems like a silly thing to waste such a cool machine on.

    I have a challenge: Make a typewriter interface that takes a picture, converts it to ascii, and types it out. That would be a real work of art and a good use for such a beautiful machine.

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  • Formori says:
    June 22, 2009 at 7:30 pm

    Creepily enough, I have that exact same model typewriter sitting under my desk. It was given to me by my great aunt a while ago and I’ve been trying to think of ways to repurpose it without scrapping it. This gives me a lot of ideas, but not twitter based ideas, noooo.

    Hmmm…

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  • matt says:
    June 22, 2009 at 11:47 pm

    “I wish twitter would just roll over, cough twice, then die choking on it’s own blood. What a waste of bandwidth.”

    +1 !

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  • Chris says:
    June 23, 2009 at 4:47 pm

    Wow. They made a printer.

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  • vaporland says:
    June 23, 2009 at 11:16 pm

    I have a teletype connected to the internet – works pretty well, but no photos…

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