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English Idioms learned the hard way.
Photo by Jeffrey Beall Do you know what “being half in the bag” means? I thought I did, until this happened … First, if you know what it means, read on. If you don’t know, or just maybe know, read...
View ArticleFunctional Teeth via Implants
A couple of weeks ago, I decided to get a tooth replaced, by an implant. My sister and me have this genetic issue, where deciduous teeth (baby teeth) are not replaced by real teeth (I think it is...
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Typewriter to Printer Conversion
Earlier this year I got myself a typewriter. I was on my way home and spotted this beauty at the local second hand / old / random things store. The owner told me he wants just 50$ for it since it was...
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Good News Everyone!
After thorough investigations I believe to have solved the last mechanical challenges to make full control of the typewriter feasible. (in the least invasive / visual way) cartridge return can be done...
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Typewriter to Printer Conversion: Current Status
So I had to learn that the 30 solenoids I got, wont have enough power at the low leverage point I wanted to connect them to the typewriter. Making me wonder to either get stronger ones with same...
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Time-Lapse Cube
Remember those really cool time-lapse videos on educational kids TV about how a seed started growing? Things moving too slow for us to recognize in our fast pace. Last summer I tried to capture a day...
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Typewriter to Printer: Progress!
I am converting an almost 100 year old typewriter into a printer that will print your tweets to it on paper while you can watch it on a webcam. It has been a good week for the typewriter to printer...
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Typewriter to Printer: Software Update
I am turning an almost hundred year old typewriter into a Twitter printer. An update is needed here, since a few things changed, not as much progress as wanted was done though. I decided for the future...
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A python script on my Raspberry Pi is now typing on my typewriter, not optimized yet, but working. Yeah! zzzzzzzzzzzzzz
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Typewriter to Printer Conversion, Update (getting close)
Good News Everybody. The typewriter (actually the raspberry pi) is now capable of picking up print jobs from my typewriter API. See yourself in the following video. For now I just use a web interface...
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Typewriter to Printer: Setbacks & Progress
I totally forgot that just having a web video stream of what is happening on the typewriter is not enough. What if actually a few people want to watch it at the same time? Bummer, have to investigate...
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Good News Everyone: Typewriter fully functional.
After many hours of work, my typewriter is now fully functional and printing your tweets. Check it out at http://lepetiteprintshop.com/ At the time of writing this, it actually already printed 68...
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Pendulum Print Bot
Concept A servo driven pendulum gets a robot swinging attached to an anchor via a cable winch on any canvas. A 2-axis canvas is created which could scale to any size of canvas with the only expense...
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