Typewriter Computer Keyboard

Step 13 Do as the ancients.

Now is the time to pound away at those keys. This can get to be kind of brutal on the wrist after a while. Although, it is kind of fun to pretend to be Ernest Hemingway (even though I doubt he ever used one of these International Business Monsters).

One last thing... If you find you are sometimes hitting a key and the letter is showing up twice, slow down the speed that the computer is checking for new keystrokes. That should do the trick.

Comments

[79spitfire]

Too bad you couldn't leave the typewriter functioning. The model A was a great clunky beast with a wonderful sound as it typed!

[sarahjanemaher]

Love this. Could you do this for a Music Keyboard as easily ? Have a university assignments in which we create a art animation with music. I thought if i could somehow connect a usb keyboard to the electric paino when a key was being pressed on the electric paino it would recognise and correspond to a key on the usb keyboard. Any ideas? Sarah

[matt ledding]

Sara, I hacked open a casiotone keyboard some time ago, and there are a LOT more cables, scratching off stuff, and I think that it would save you a lot of time to just learn to control midi events.

You are going to have to do the software work anyways, so you might as well do everything in software.

[randofo]

Not really sure. It would be trickier I would imagine. This seems like something that would be easier to do in software than in hardware.

[Veeence]

www.bome.com/products/miditranslator Bome's MIDI translator is the software you're looking for.

You'll need a MIDI to USB converter if your keyboard doesn't already have a usb plug on it. Either way, you'll be plugging it directly into your computer. 

You then can use the software to translate notes into actual keystrokes.