Another contribiution in english, just in case anybody else in this world is still interested in Typewriters ;)

Here is what I've done so far:
https://www.netzherpes.de/blog/index.php?entry=entry160905-103014

Last week I managed to get a script working on my RaspberryPi for printing out tweets on a POS Printer. I've done something like this some years ago, but long before Twitter changed the API's .

This time I copypasted a ruby script by kris.cool, running (after some rubygem install orgy) out of the box. And I did not use a regular Printer on the USB Port, no, I've chosen my old Olivetti Typewriter ET compact 60 (with Centronics Interface LCU60P).
Some minor changes had to be done regarding the CR+LF, but nothing really challenging. German Umlaute are not supported yet, and '@' and '#' are not on the daisywheel, so I need to find a way to replace theese chars, too.
BUT: It's typing!



So... If anybody out there wants to wake me up, post a tweet containing #samenandreas and my old Typewriter will start banging like there is no tomorrow!

Have fun,
stay childish

Yours
Webdoktor

UPDATE:
as written above, the typewriter lacks # and @ and the unicode chatracters üöäÜÖÄß are coded in ascii, not german ascii. I did a little translation to insert the right chars, or (at) instead of @

Now it's complete

# Translate umlauts for typewriter
foo = tweet.text.dup
foo.gsub!('#','(hash)')
foo.gsub!('ü','}')
foo.gsub!('ö','|')
foo.gsub!('ä','{')
foo.gsub!('Ü',']')
foo.gsub!('Ö','\\')
foo.gsub!('Ä','[')
foo.gsub!('ß','~')
foo.gsub!('@','(at)')
and later define foo as :message