Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter

Posted by axarydax on Sunday November 01, 2020 @06:36AM
from the jborza.com dept.

http://jborza.com/hardware/2020/10/31/hardware-adventures-8-ps2-typewriter.html

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Re:Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter by flobosg on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @03:12AM (#24977522)

I would love to see something akin to the Alphasmart Neo2[1], powered by a low consumption LCD screen. The closest I've seen are E-ink[2] or LCD+E-ink[3] typewriters.

[1]: https://www.loudcoffeepress.com/post/alphasmart-neo2-review

[2]: https://hackaday.com/2018/10/20/e-ink-typewriter-is-refreshi...

[3]: https://hackaday.com/2019/02/18/offline-e-paper-typewriter-l...

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Re:Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter by axarydax on Wednesday November 04, 2020 @11:38AM (#24990556)

Could be doable by throwing in a larger LCD panel. I think that a more sane platform to implementing a portable LCD typewriter would be either an Arduino with an SD card instead of going all of the way with an FPGA.

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Re:Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter by nitrogen on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @10:05AM (#24980251)

I was hoping this was a project to replace the keyboard on a mechanical typewriter or word processor.

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Re:Adventures in hardware, part 8 – PS2 Keyboard Typewriter by axarydax on Tuesday November 03, 2020 @12:51PM (#24982022)

That's a cool idea - I'll look if I can get a word processor for cheap... and turn it into a PS2 keyboard

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