The Robot Typewriter that Creates ASCII Art

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Engineezy

Engineezy

Күн бұрын

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The plan is to use 3d printers, Servo motors, an arduino, and some mediocre computer code to fully automate an antique typewriter from the 1950’s with the sole intention of creating ASCII art from the 70s, 80s and 90s. Why? Because the irony of the whole project just screams art, but then it also outputs art making it even more ironic, which makes it scream even more Art. Hard project to pass up.
From the engineering perspective, this is a mechatronics project, which means it requires mechanical, electronic, and software engineering. This video documents the project and is broken up into 4 distinct parts:
1:42 - Mechanical design process
10:15 - Electronics process
11:15 - Software Engineering process
15:25 - The Art Creation Process (if you’re only going to watch one part, watch this)
The mechanical design ended up using rack and pinions for the x-axis, y-axis, typing fingers, and return carriage. I chose to use servo motors as actuators for each segment in an attempt to make the electronics and software development easier. It definitely made organizing the wires much easier, but led to complications down the road. I used the Arduino ide to write the firmware for this robot, and Processing to write the software. It was cobbled together code, but fortunately, the machine ran quite well and I was able to produce some amazing ASCII art in the process!
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@nateolmsted22
@nateolmsted22 Жыл бұрын
putting that Y slider at an angle is such an obvious but genius move 😅 I was trying to think of a good way to accomplish dealing with that height difference in the rows of keys before you got to it and basically facepalmed when you showed the angled rack setup lol super cool project, as usual 👌👌
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks Nate! I was pretty pumped when I realized that would work 🙌
@nevyn38
@nevyn38 Жыл бұрын
Part of me finds it REALLY funny that you managed to reinvent the daisy wheel printer. Another part of me is totally impressed that you came up with what's essentially a conversion kit for turning a typewriter into a printer. I'm not sure which part of me is winning out.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏
@justtestingonce
@justtestingonce 2 жыл бұрын
Only 2000 views, you got to be kidding me! Dude as an engineer myself, excellent work and excellent way to tell your story, love the work, subscribed.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks so much dude! Welcome to the adventure 👊👊
@D4RKFiB3R
@D4RKFiB3R Жыл бұрын
What a difference a year makes :)
@jamescrowe2958
@jamescrowe2958 2 жыл бұрын
you’re literally the coolest person i know. i’m currently in university for engineering and can only dream of doing projects like this when i’m older
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks James! I started in the same place as you- you got this 👊👊
@BrownMInc
@BrownMInc 2 жыл бұрын
I know right! I'm in my 3rd year and his videos makes thinking of the possibilities so exciting. I appreciate that he shows and explains a bit of the process more than just "I got this thing and did that thing and boom here it is". My creativity could use some work though!
@ivangutowski
@ivangutowski Жыл бұрын
If you're uni age, doing engineering - surely your entire free time growing up must have been filled with projects like these - that's how you learn.
@KaffeMedBulla
@KaffeMedBulla Жыл бұрын
I already do projects like this and I'm 12 years old
@jayasuriya8306
@jayasuriya8306 Жыл бұрын
Me too
@jtcustomknives
@jtcustomknives Жыл бұрын
What I find genius which some people might not have noticed is the hot glue pockets you modeled into your parts. When using any type of glue a “starved joint” is a very real thing where the glue gets squished out between the 2 materials causing a weakness in the joint. You accounted for this but adding a glue pocket. Very nice.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Mad respect for catching that! 👊👊
@shedactivist
@shedactivist Жыл бұрын
Brilliant. My first reaction to the finger torque issue was to use an electric typewriter. They have push button carriage returns as well
@BaronSamedi1959
@BaronSamedi1959 2 жыл бұрын
You are too young to have seen it, but down in the late 1970s / early 1980s before printers became available for home use, you could buy a "keyboard" consisting of solenoids which you mounted above your electro-mechanical typewriter and your computer would then drive the solenoids. It made a hell of a noise, but it worked remarkably well. Later, the dot-matrix printers became more widely available, but their print quality was definitely way less than the solenoid-driven electro-mechanical typewriter. Someone actually recreated this kind of contraption: www.geeky-gadgets.com/retro-typewriter-printer-created-using-arduino-and-solenoids-30-06-2015/
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Definitely a little before my time 😂
@CC-jy3el
@CC-jy3el 2 жыл бұрын
That is so cool! Thanks for sharing!!
@BuckeyeStormsProductions
@BuckeyeStormsProductions Жыл бұрын
You should now pair this with AI story creation software. Then make it portable, take it to a coffee shop, and when people look at you funny, tell them you are working on your next novel.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
😂😂 that would be hilar
@bobert286
@bobert286 Жыл бұрын
Lol, this would make an awesome art exhibit...dress the mechanism up with a sparking and stressed out looking robot to look like it's typing - then just have it typing away random gibberish generated by an AI bot that was trained by watching months of trash TV Call it "A device by any other MAC address would have as low of latency" by William Sparkspeare
@gamer_si
@gamer_si Жыл бұрын
GPT sucks at ASCII art
@gamorandgamorellemcgamey3197
@gamorandgamorellemcgamey3197 6 ай бұрын
Wait... buckeye storms? I am an Ohioan who enjoys weather too!
@BuckeyeStormsProductions
@BuckeyeStormsProductions 6 ай бұрын
@@gamorandgamorellemcgamey3197 cool! I once had the dream of using my channel to provide great Buckeye State weather content. That came and went a long time ago. Haha. Still in Ohio. Still enjoy weather.
@rvisani
@rvisani 2 жыл бұрын
Amazing work!!! I've been following your channel on and off and you are getting more and more ambitious. Really exciting to see you push your creativity!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Roberto! I plan to keep pushing :)
@3DPrinterAcademy
@3DPrinterAcademy 2 жыл бұрын
This is such a cool project!! Hope this vid blows up! (And your programming skills are great FYI)
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Steven! We will see what happens 🙈
@DJTsquaredMusic
@DJTsquaredMusic 2 жыл бұрын
This is absolutely incredible and needs to blow up 🙌
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks brother! Hopefully it does :)
@KieranShort
@KieranShort 2 жыл бұрын
I just came across this video (and channel)... It hasn't yet, but definitely should! I got here on a convoluted journey via a 3D Printer Academy website link to a Kickstarter of models which was run by JBV while had a KZbin link.. which brought me here.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
@@KieranShort Welcome! Happy to have ya :)
@elspanishimo
@elspanishimo 2 жыл бұрын
Absolutely amazing build!!! And the end results are so cool! Love the explanation and walk through too, super interesting.
@DJTsquaredMusic
@DJTsquaredMusic 2 жыл бұрын
+ Graham Shoutout!!!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Graham (everyone, this is THE Graham) for saving me some headaches 👊👊
@machinebeat130
@machinebeat130 7 ай бұрын
Watched your channel for a few hours in one go. Love what you do. 😊
@heyitsAnton
@heyitsAnton 2 жыл бұрын
This is great! You make it look ALMOST easy with your skills!!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Anton! Much appreciated
@Freestila
@Freestila Жыл бұрын
What i love about these projects: As a software developer i see just from a quick glance room for some improvements on the software :) Easy peasy for me. On the other side i would really struggle with the 3d design. So i like these projects which bridge different topics :)
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Glad you can enjoy it even though my programming is a little hack!
@xXIkaron
@xXIkaron Жыл бұрын
@@Engineezy Seeing you make a variable for every individual key made me so sad but hey, it did work! Congrats on the build, looks awesome.
@Seanlabor
@Seanlabor 8 ай бұрын
@@xXIkaron How would you solve it instead?
@xXIkaron
@xXIkaron 8 ай бұрын
@@Seanlabor std::map with KeyPosition being a struct containing the necessary info e.g. x, y, which side, etc.
@zotezotezote
@zotezotezote Жыл бұрын
This is by far one of the most impressive things I've seen! Subscribed.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks!! Much appreciated
@yetanotherdan
@yetanotherdan 2 жыл бұрын
I love this! I'd like to see you tackle a string art machine. There's a few examples on KZbin but they're basically a hoop with a lot of pins around the edge and a mechanism that feeds thread through them. The designs that can be made are very artistic and cool.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Im gonna check it out! Thanks for watching Dan!
@t-mane5729
@t-mane5729 Жыл бұрын
This is my kind of channel. Great content. Bet your about to blow up so keep creating!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Always appreciate comments like these 🙏
@DanteYewToob
@DanteYewToob Жыл бұрын
You know, it never occurred to me until now that the boomer style of peck typing might have a reason… it actually makes sense on a typewriter where the keys have long heavy strokes and you have to punch the keys down with force… the “proper” and efficient way of modern typing wouldn’t work on a typewriter without a lot of effort and skill… so most people probably just pecked at the keys to make sure they got a clean result! Not to mention if you make a mistake you can’t just easily delete… so accuracy was more important than speed for most people. It just goes to show that as much as we might judge others, they might have an explanation or reason behind it. My mom types like that but she grew up using a typewriter which she actually still has in decent condition in our storage.. maybe I’ll check it out and see how it feels.
@Leftysrev3nge
@Leftysrev3nge 7 күн бұрын
For real. I wonder what the WPM were for some early typists on these early typewriters. Some Hulked-out fingers.
@codylund2169
@codylund2169 5 ай бұрын
I just found you a month ago. And I must say you're awesome. I'm loving all your stuff. Keep clapping.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 5 ай бұрын
Thanks so much!
@LossBH
@LossBH 5 ай бұрын
man i love this channel. love your work! thanks for the top tier content
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 5 ай бұрын
Much appreciated!
@LossBH
@LossBH 5 ай бұрын
@@Engineezy i know you’re a busy guy, but i i figured i’d ask anyway. i struggle with putting my ideas and ambitions into motion, sometimes. what do you use/do to organize your thoughts or goals? i struggle to focus on one project for extended periods of time and end up jumping from project to project, leaving stuff unfinished. trying to improve!
@mohammedsuwaidi
@mohammedsuwaidi 8 ай бұрын
Hey JBV, I love your videos! The output of this project is beautiful, I do a lot of 3D modeling and printing in my projects minus the servo and arduino additions (wish I could learn it). I really appreciate the commitment you’ve had holding on to your vision. Congratulations. Big fan of your channel - keep it up ✨
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 8 ай бұрын
Thank you! Appreciate the kind words. Best of luck on your printing journey :)
@mysteriouspikachuman
@mysteriouspikachuman Жыл бұрын
Your videos are a huge inspiration. All of your projects make me want to get on Fusion, or VSC, or whatever stuff is cool and do something!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Doo it!!
@mysteriouspikachuman
@mysteriouspikachuman Жыл бұрын
@@Engineezy yeah i just got klipper working on my rpi4, excited for more printermods!
@Maderasdesign
@Maderasdesign Жыл бұрын
Ahh ascii nudes. brings back memories to late 90s and early 00's. This was incredible by the way!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
😂😂 thank you!
@Thawney
@Thawney Жыл бұрын
This is the first video of yours I have ever seen and I love your channel already.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@tbianchi02
@tbianchi02 Жыл бұрын
This project is freaking awesome! Very happy to discover your yt channel, youre amazing!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks Tomas! Appreciate it 😀
@ekaggrat
@ekaggrat Жыл бұрын
really cool work. I really like the way the servos are used for linear motion rather than the usual heavier steppers
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@esser50k
@esser50k Ай бұрын
This vi turned out really nice, one of my inspirations for my latest typewriter build :D
@VinVout
@VinVout 2 жыл бұрын
I loved your working area so much. I wish I could get one like yours.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Vin! Definitely a great place to be creative 🙌
@another_user05
@another_user05 8 ай бұрын
printers should've started like this... that would be great to see in history before the actual printer.
@kylebrake1806
@kylebrake1806 Жыл бұрын
I love your videos! Keep up the great work.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks Kyle!
@MaheshDilipSalvi
@MaheshDilipSalvi Жыл бұрын
Great work! Same thing was in my mind three years ago but only for trying not for image printing and my preference was fixing solenoid actuator on each key. My idea was to create fusion of soft keyboard and hard print i.e. As we go on hitting/typing keys on computer keyboard it will relocate same remotely on typewriter ;)
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Great minds think alike!
@MoltenImaginings
@MoltenImaginings 4 ай бұрын
Binge watching these cool builds. You had way too much fun with this one at the end. Lol
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 4 ай бұрын
😂
@temidirehamzaht8169
@temidirehamzaht8169 Жыл бұрын
I love the way he explains what he’s doing , it makes me really want to make something
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Go make something 😀
@mrtroy
@mrtroy Жыл бұрын
Had to pause the video at 04:00 ... I sat and stared off into space cause in my 30+ years of using computers NEVER heard that(or remember hearing it). And it makes so much sense.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Haha I know right 🤯
@thetruthexperiment
@thetruthexperiment Жыл бұрын
I can’t believe how clean those gears look. I really need to get into 3D printing before it’s too late.
@MG-design
@MG-design Жыл бұрын
3D printing is amazing! Absolutely fell in love with it. The principal of fast Prototyping really puts building something in a new perspective. I once heard "creativity is intelligentice having fun". This really is true with 3D printing
@vsgames1022
@vsgames1022 2 жыл бұрын
Im impressed, well done!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@anthonymuccillo
@anthonymuccillo Жыл бұрын
Fricken heck man this is an excellent build 🤙 I'm sure it's been said before, but for future servo projects it's very easy to modify them for endless rotation for linear and winching applications. Few resistors or even using a linear potentiometer in place of the potentiometer and removing the stop pin in the output spline. Always looking forward to more mechatronics builds.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you! Continuous servo mods will definitely be used in the future!
@kamel3d
@kamel3d Жыл бұрын
Very cool project I which at the end of the video you made normal speed segment of the machine taping a word or more, then a timelapse without moving the camera to see it motion for longer time, just for people to apreciate the creation, well done
@jesvinpalatty9112
@jesvinpalatty9112 2 жыл бұрын
This project was really awesome !! . you earned yourself a subscriber : )
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Welcome aboard! Thanks for watching!
@iamjamieq
@iamjamieq 2 жыл бұрын
Hey Jay! Haven't seen you in ages, but my dad told me about your creations. This stuff is awesome! Not only the finished products, but I love these videos of your process!! I just bought your wall mounted marble coaster to print for my son. Keep this up! I've subscribed and will keep watching. Also, "baby Boomer-esque typing style" is one of the funniest phrases I've heard in a long time!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
James! Saw that but wasn’t sure if it was you- thanks so much for supporting. Haha we all have at least one peck-typer in the family and their name is often Michael 🤣
@sundaynobody
@sundaynobody Жыл бұрын
very nice, inspiring me to get into servo motor control!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
So many possibilities
@TantoVale
@TantoVale 2 жыл бұрын
Nice project and cool execution! I guess it took a lot of trial and error and waiting for prints to come out, test them and change the design😁😁
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Exactly! But I try to design in such a way that I can iterate quickly. Thanks for watching :)
@vidademau
@vidademau Жыл бұрын
Woooow está increible. Te felicito!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@john7027
@john7027 2 жыл бұрын
Jay, there is NOTHING mediocre about you. You are brilliant 🤩
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks John!
@OliverGardens
@OliverGardens Жыл бұрын
High quality content, I'm surprised the YT algo didn't push this to me sooner.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Took over a year 🤷‍♀️
@notsecure
@notsecure Жыл бұрын
WOW, Simply Amazing!!!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you 🙏
@ibrahimkocaalioglu
@ibrahimkocaalioglu Жыл бұрын
Amazing project ❤
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@theturtle32
@theturtle32 2 жыл бұрын
This is awesome! Love the ridiculous engineering choices (hot glue 😅) for the lulz, and even the stubborn commitment to using servo motors even if something else would work better. That being said, another approach to building this kind of machine would be to just use an unmodified 3d printer control board and stepper motors with endstops. You just tell the firmware (probably Marlin) how many steps translate to the movement of one millimeter on each axis, and then you could write a simple program to translate a text document into GCode movement commands to move the X and Y axes. The Z axis could be used for operating the "return" lever. And either continue using a servo for the button-press (Marlin firmware can control servos as well) or better yet, a solenoid connected via an H-Bridge to one of the spare GPIO pins on the control board (There are GCode commands that can tell Marlin to set a GPIO pin to high or low). With that in place, you could hook it up with OctoPrint and then you're literally using an entire 3d printing stack to implement a traditional text-on-paper printer! 😅
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Very true! Maybe next time 😂
@mihailmilev9909
@mihailmilev9909 Жыл бұрын
Thank you for being the first to expose me to and let me know about the career path for me that I've been looking for in this video (mechatronics engineer). Also EXACTLY 400th comment! This can't be a coincidence 😉😜 ;P
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙌🙌🙌
@TechsScience
@TechsScience Жыл бұрын
Nice work It deserves millions views
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@felixtrefzer3893
@felixtrefzer3893 2 жыл бұрын
Nice video I like so many nice 3D printable designs
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks Felix!
@ZMacGregor
@ZMacGregor Жыл бұрын
16:00 AYO WHAT Just to be clear I'm definitely not complaining but I was not expecting that
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
😎
@MorleyKert
@MorleyKert Жыл бұрын
This is so awesome.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks brother 👊👊
@gordonwong2260
@gordonwong2260 Жыл бұрын
Very cool project
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks Gordon! Glad you enjoyed
@iliarsl
@iliarsl 2 жыл бұрын
This is amazing!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you! 👊👊
@r.e.l.crafts
@r.e.l.crafts Жыл бұрын
you are awesome man wish for your passion
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@HenryLoenwind
@HenryLoenwind Жыл бұрын
Correction on the return/enter key on Mac keyboards: Full-sized keyboards, both Mac and PC, have both an enter key and a return key. However, very few programs handle them differently, especially on the Windows side. But there's still a tiny difference in MacOS dialog boxes, so the numpad-less mac keyboards have the both on the same key with one on the Fn layer. Some PC laptops also have this, but I've never seen it labelled (not that I have ever looked for it). And in case someone wonders what the difference between enter and return originally was: Mainframe computers used to work by sending a full page of text to the terminal, where the user then could put in all the data they wanted and send the whole thing back to the computer to be processed. The return key did just what it does here when writing a KZbin comment, it moves the curser to the next line. The enter key did what happens when I press the "Comment" button below, it sent the filled out form to the computer.
@nidhishsingh4122
@nidhishsingh4122 Жыл бұрын
Dude you are so underrated, wtf get this man to a million quick
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@theepictallguy
@theepictallguy 2 жыл бұрын
Underrated Video!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you sir!
@IraQNid
@IraQNid Жыл бұрын
Bigger mind blow for ya: "Return" was the original keystroke command for all computers in the early days. It was commonly used on terminals, telewriters, home PCs (of which Apple is a member). "Enter" came along later on.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🤯🤯🤯
@alanesq1
@alanesq1 Жыл бұрын
You asked for ideas for future projects: You could adapt this to operate a comptometer, this could be an interesting project as there would be all the fun of coding the mathematical procedures used with a comptometer and also whilst it is possible to do this one key at a time on a comptometer they are designed to press several keys at the same time, you could have one arm with several moving fingers. It would also have the advantage of being able to claim the title of the slowest electronic calculator on the planet ;-) BTW - professional comptometer operators only used keys 1 to 5.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
😂😂 slowest calculator
@Rouverius
@Rouverius 2 жыл бұрын
Really cool. Added bonus, it types faster than me 😅
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
😂😂😂 thanks!
@FoxyAnimater
@FoxyAnimater Жыл бұрын
Another fun fact about return, macos may never mention it explicitly as return but Linux does. Especially in older software.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Interesting!
@vinhdau6908
@vinhdau6908 2 жыл бұрын
Cant wait for this channel to blow up
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
With you on that!
@nyaa
@nyaa 2 жыл бұрын
this is awesome! :)
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thank you 😊
@kenangrover402
@kenangrover402 23 күн бұрын
Very cool!
@aminnuzulludin2256
@aminnuzulludin2256 4 ай бұрын
Great bro
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 4 ай бұрын
Thank you! Cheers!
@MW-mechanical
@MW-mechanical Жыл бұрын
How the hell does this have less than 1000 likes!? You’re fantastic, man!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@SURESH0511
@SURESH0511 2 жыл бұрын
Very nice project. I would like to make one. Are you going to share the CAD files and firmware ?
@TFlorian
@TFlorian Жыл бұрын
nice project !
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks Florian!
@thetruthexperiment
@thetruthexperiment Жыл бұрын
Also, 3D printing has been a concept for as long as history and the idea got very popular in the 80s. Articles in all the science rags were taking of them as a futuristic future thing. To build buildings and tools and prototypes. But it wasn’t until some people bit the bullet and just built one that they became popular. Nobody saw their obvious utility. Nobody saw dollar signs. It wasn’t our engineering capabilities or even or computer power that held us back, it was people willing to just do it finally that made the difference. Makes you wonder how many other amazing things we lack because people expect someone else to come up with it.
@braydenreince6340
@braydenreince6340 Жыл бұрын
Easy subscribe, awesome project!!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!!
@vishwasshukla9288
@vishwasshukla9288 Жыл бұрын
Proud of you!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Well thank you 😊
@barracudalake1607
@barracudalake1607 Жыл бұрын
is it possible to combine characters to get more possibilities with it? essentially backspace without the space/removing of the character
@avsjrportfolio
@avsjrportfolio Жыл бұрын
AMAZING
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thank you!
@ruben-b4534
@ruben-b4534 Жыл бұрын
All the coders: PAIN, also the coders: Nice!
@rwolterbeek
@rwolterbeek Жыл бұрын
This vid deserves more love, have some engagement
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Much appreciated 🙏
@HanggliderDelta
@HanggliderDelta Жыл бұрын
I have seen so called professionals who also used delay function for mutual excrusion or simply to control paralell processes in the industry, even if a real servo drive knows exactly where it is. :-D Anyway this is a very nice fun project with hot glue and many-many hours of thinking. I wish I could do my projects also.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Haha! Thank you 🙏
@VileAce
@VileAce Жыл бұрын
Just found your channel and have been going through some of the past videos. In the future when you want to get rid of play in your gears you might want to try a herringbone gear pattern. I use them a lot when I want lager gears for an easy 3d print but do not want the play.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks for the tip! Will definitely need to try it
@Soporonix
@Soporonix Жыл бұрын
this is high quality content
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Appreciate it!
@peter360adventures9
@peter360adventures9 Жыл бұрын
Awesome.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏
@herzogsbuick
@herzogsbuick Жыл бұрын
fantastic! there's an output filter for mplayer that renders video in ascii, you might be able to type up a short video, grabbing each frame, then animating them together. just an idea :-) subscribed!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Ooh that would be amazing!
@filmweaver2013
@filmweaver2013 Жыл бұрын
Fantastic work man! So fun to watch! Loved the process, video and your content! , the nerdy mechanical engineer in me wants to suggest a thing or 2 which I’m sure you must be aware of already though (I don’t mean to offend 😂). You could measure the force required to push that return bar and can design around the reduction ratio fr you other robotic arm idea, a simple dynamic model of that system would’ve solved that issue. And, ik the gear selection can be arbitrary but, again, if you had the measured push force required and a dynamic model, the gear reduction can then be determined more accurately, and knowing the loads makes module selection more reliable. (gotta keep reminding these non-hardware ‘engineers’ that we are mediocre coders, or else, might get attacked) 🤣
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Appreciate the suggestions!
@GODKARENCHRIST
@GODKARENCHRIST Жыл бұрын
I know a kid who need this who loves to play the guitar and is sadly stuff with depression and anxiety. He is very close to me and sadly recently talked about wanting to be suicidal. He wants a typewriter to which him and his dad can use to write a secret project out... Hint: the project is based around a large spoon. And he is shy but very easy to talk to. I hear he is your biggest fan as well. :) (Text from speech btw)
@KrazyKaiser
@KrazyKaiser Жыл бұрын
"Return" is also what functions in programs do. Fun linguistic holdovers.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Love that term- linguistic holdover
@aliciawelch3127
@aliciawelch3127 Жыл бұрын
amazing.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏
@ejenda9909
@ejenda9909 Жыл бұрын
An object with the keys mapped to numbers could have saved you a lot of time!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Still working on my OOP skills! Thanks will def need to try this
@shadowcowmooo7415
@shadowcowmooo7415 2 жыл бұрын
saw one of ur shorts and had to check out the channel, was not disappointed, seems like the channel stuffmadehere
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 2 жыл бұрын
Thanks for checking it out my guy! Stuffmadehere is definitely an inspiration
@sujalsharma7895
@sujalsharma7895 Жыл бұрын
someone: how many a4 sheets have you used for this? jay: yes
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🤣
@rplutchik
@rplutchik Ай бұрын
So clever!!
@tribalrhino
@tribalrhino Жыл бұрын
This is a darn fine combo of real things, made things and the magic glue that holds stuff together.... All you need now is a webcam to take a photo of someone, convert that to ascii art, and then "print it out" Noowwwww you're cooking on gas :D
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
🙏🙏🙏
@Tictacpanter
@Tictacpanter Жыл бұрын
Would be neat to see it pump out an animated scene.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
That would be awesome! Maybe one day I’ll bring it back to life
@Xanore
@Xanore Жыл бұрын
Nice!
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Thanks!
@hughjanis6318
@hughjanis6318 4 ай бұрын
4:40 Ayy, that’s the same brand of servo I use for my rc car! 😃
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 4 ай бұрын
🙌🙌🙌
@oscarames641
@oscarames641 Жыл бұрын
Howdy what do you use to make your gears and how do you calculate what length/diameter would be from the modulus values you use.
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Gap between gears = (modulus1 + modulus2) / 2
@bensidsaph4349
@bensidsaph4349 Жыл бұрын
I was thinking the other day if this would be possible we Jen found your video. My idea was to have it sat in something similarl to a 3D printer and have the print head be the finger. Good job
@Engineezy
@Engineezy 11 ай бұрын
That would be a great solution as well!
@data-_-
@data-_- Жыл бұрын
The horror fan in me was praying for you to make it type out "all work and no play makes Jack a dull boy"
@xinsertusername
@xinsertusername Жыл бұрын
I love the project, but as a mech student myself, a free body diagram and some force calcs could have solved your return bar issues before they occured haha
@webdroid7938
@webdroid7938 Жыл бұрын
Hi Jay, you are awesome creative developing and sharing your ideas👏 👏 👏 a blowing mind adventure! I arrived here by the lovely flowers projects :) This typewriter robot art project is fantastic, and only 9k views, is under rated... It deserves to grow, I think... For example, with an App you could be receiving orders (for artistic or romantic typewriter letter) online from all over the world, for a fee, or traveling from museums to museums integrated with some theme expositions. You "just" need to improve you device to feed the selected paper type (sponsored) and deliver the outcome:) what do you think? Glad to meet you and your work 👌 WD
@Engineezy
@Engineezy Жыл бұрын
Love the idea! Might be worth a revisit one day :)
@webdroid7938
@webdroid7938 Жыл бұрын
@@Engineezy thanks a lot for your comment! I agree that it might be worth a revisit... For example I can imagine your creative projects on some Cience Expositions, helping visitors to travel in time, connecting important iconic tech devices from the past, and empowering them, with the present technology. This could be part of a screenplay of a time travel short movie - and your video "How I Built A Robotic Typewriter that Creates Art" is the so loved "behind the scenes". Coud this fulfill your creative tech mindset and boost your channel views? What do you think? I feel so proud of your intense creative tech projects, and particularly this one, make me dream to see this kind off Art Expression, spread all over the world... one day :)
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