Actually, a "non-strike" can happen quite easily, so this would have to be dealt with, preferably without having to flush the buffer. Good ideas, though.
Only other thing that comes to mind is installing microswitches to activate at the bottom stroke of each individual key lever and then wiring them to a controller in the same pattern as the controller's matrix. Not for the feint of heart.
I realized the strikers will probably be connected in some way. I also thought about possibly replacing whatever's connecting them, like if it's a rod, I might be able to replace it with plastic, or teflon or something like that...
My idea is using magnets and reed switch, but I don't sure that it'll work or not. Maybe the strength of magnet should be carefully adjusted.
this is lame, but... gut a modern optical mouse and mount its optical sensor in the platen. then do OCR on the incoming strikers.
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Chimera, just making sure you've seen this mod. I had posted in earlier in another thread.Show Image(http://www.instructables.com/file/FRRAJN9IJXEV2Z5FHB/Glue-everything-in-place.jpg)
Boy, that's a lot of wires.
Link to Instructables Article. (http://www.instructables.com/id/Typewriter-Computer-Keyboard/)
Hmm, these would probably work...
http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-20-Cherry-Microswitches-E33-10A-125-250-VAC-259_W0QQitemZ350278129248QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518e341660 (http://cgi.ebay.com/Lot-of-20-Cherry-Microswitches-E33-10A-125-250-VAC-259_W0QQitemZ350278129248QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item518e341660)''
Or maybe these...
http://cgi.ebay.com/4-X-15A-Long-Lever-Microswitches-AC250V-Micro-Switches_W0QQitemZ230418084340QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a5fcf1f4 (http://cgi.ebay.com/4-X-15A-Long-Lever-Microswitches-AC250V-Micro-Switches_W0QQitemZ230418084340QQcmdZViewItemQQptZLH_DefaultDomain_0?hash=item35a5fcf1f4)
It's interesting, he really kind of destroys the typewriter...since his is electric? It has a power supply? Ideally I'll just want to fit the switches in a place that they'd be able to be taken out if I want to at some later date.
I bought 40 of these
I need to find the linkages that move the carriage assembly and see if there's a way I can disable that function easily, so if I end up succeeding in this I won't have to keep moving the carriage over every time I get to the end of a line.What, you weren't going to use it to make a newline?