Comments on: TwypeWriter

By: vaporland

vaporland — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 06:16:08 +0000

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

By: Chris

Chris — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 23:47:26 +0000

Wow. They made a printer.

By: matt

matt — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:47:39 +0000

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

+1 !

By: Formori

Formori — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 02:30:22 +0000

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…

By: nemo

nemo — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:31:00 +0000

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.

By: greycode

greycode — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 23:04:13 +0000

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

By: Damon

Damon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 22:04:17 +0000

So much for going “Green”…cool nonetheless!

By: Taylor Alexander

Taylor Alexander — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:46:33 +0000

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

By: bort

bort — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:04:22 +0000

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

By: bort

bort — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 21:03:16 +0000

fuck off twitter

By: Josh

Josh — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:30:11 +0000

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. ;)

By: Del

Del — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:13:36 +0000

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

By: Hirudinea

Hirudinea — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 20:11:55 +0000

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

By: cptfalcon

cptfalcon — Mon, 22 Jun 2009 19:55:57 +0000

Coolest twitter interface yet.