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USB Typewriter
Have you ever walked through a flea-market and started thinking of how all that junk could get a whole new second life with just a little bit of electronics?
Well, I have. I don't even really need to go to a flea-market to think like that. One day I was, as it often happens, talking nonsense with some friends and decided that converting an old typewriter into a USB keyboard would be fun. So I did it. Well, I'm actually doing it, so this page will be updated as the project moves on.
Last update: 2008-03-16
The Victim
I'm not really much of a "going to the flea-market" kind of person, so I found my victim on eBay.
I bought this one because it was cheap and, even better, has a keyboard layout that's very similar to my own Swiss-French layout, which I simply love.
How To
Rather than describing the steps here, I'm actually writing about the project on my blog, so I'll just link to the appropriate posts:
- Figuring out how the brains of the keyboard work: Typewriter soon to be USB
