As a writer it’s a pleasure to see one’s work appear from time to time on a physical medium. While newspapers may be shuffling slowly off this mortal coil, there are still a few opportunities to write for printed media. It’s safe to say that no Hackaday scribe has ever managed to have their work published on the medium in this hack though, because it’s a typewriter designed to type on toast.
The toaster-typewriter is the work of [Ritika Kedia], and it forms part of her thesis in product design at the Parsons School of Design, New York. It’s written up very much from an artistic rather than a tech perspective, but it’s no less ingenious for that in the way it uses letters formed from hot wire on a clay substrate, mounted on the end of the typewriter arms in front of a toaster.
We’re slightly sad to see that it only has three operable letters at the moment as it’s an artwork rather than a document machine, but we love the idea and wish she had time to develop it further with a full alphabet. You can see a short demo in the video below the break.
Ha ha you can eat your words!
You win!
*chuckle and groan*
And even choke on your words.
Don’t butter me up with your puns.
Typewriter jam, anyone?
Bit of a Marmite (on toast) project this one
The pen is mightier than the sword, but the pen is rubbish at spreading butter.
If she had the additional letters A V C D she could have had some avocado toast.
A revolutionary contribution to the sciences…..
>very much from an artistic rather than a tech perspective
>it’s an artwork rather than a document machine
Did you intentionally miss the point or did you just not read the article?
It’s for a Product Design thesis, I don’t think anyone’s claiming that this is going to cure cancer.
This is modern art I can support! “Nonsense Machines” Are better than blank canvas or splattered paint!
If it did, I’d be the first to propose a toast!
A marriage proposal perhaps?
B^)
Pica spacing and large type, can’t be proper composition on it’s own.
It would be fun to try making a toast typewriter with galvos and a laser… hmmmm…. 😎
Like the psychedelic typewriter in Naked Lunch.
My first thought would be have a blow torch keep the slugs red hot so you can use the whole keyboard.. but then I remembered the typeslugs are attached by (leaded) solder. hmm
You could use an all metal IBM style typeball.
I wonder if a CNC laser cutter would give you more flexibility in terms of fonts and images.
I’d give it a whirl, but it sounds like a sure way to get ejected from my local Maker Space.
I did a real LOL picturing this. Please do it.
They’re no fun anymore…One relatively small explosion.
It’s obviously doable. Permission/forgiveness?
Laser cutter overkill. Would need to run at low power and move to blur.
IIRC during the first .com boom/bomb, someone was building a connected toaster that printed a weather map on your toast. Got funded. IIRC Was using a moving modulated hot wire. Regular toaster coils on back.
VCs dumb, time to rinse/repeat?
On the other hand. Exploits, toaster virus and goat.se on everybody’s toast.
On the gripping hand, profit (same as always). Just how dumb are the VCs?
But is there any Breadboard construction used?
But is there any Breadboard construction used?
As a dad, I appreciate your pun.
I’m still waiting for a Battlestar Galactica “toaster” reference to appear in the comments (Sigh!)
I sorta chickened out with throwing in mention of a “555-grain loaf” though.
If the mods ever quit letting the punsters leave their works, I’ll be heartbroken.
Kryten has gone too far in his efforts to revive Holly.
Howdy doodly do! How’s it going?