[Upcycle It] Hermes 3000 - Post #5

RE: [Upcycle It] Hermes 3000 - Post #5

jasonwier92 — Tue, 23 May 2017 15:17:40 GMT

I would like this to send tweets!

Given the realm of the device, faxing would be an update too. I am sure you could email a fax gateway and have it tweet each time an email/fax was sent!

Finals really put a crunch on the fun parts of life. Back to it!

RE: [Upcycle It] Hermes 3000 - Post #5

Workshopshed — Tue, 23 May 2017 10:11:12 GMT

Perhaps conductive tape (you can get it from garden centres to get rid of slugs and snails) held in place with "funky foam" as Ben Heck likes to call it.

RE: [Upcycle It] Hermes 3000 - Post #5

mcb1 — Mon, 22 May 2017 22:01:29 GMT

there is actually a lot of vibration that occurs when you type

One solution could be the use of conductive rubber, like the internals of keypads.

Not sure where you'd get them or if you can easily incorporate something small enough along the bar.

An interim solution may be to add a small amount of weight to the type bar.

Personally I'd concentrate on the finish line, and accept there is some fine tuning to be done on the detection system.

It is possibly the hardest part given the mechanical nature of the that typewriter.

Mark