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Re: I Built a Keyboard

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On 2014-10-23, BartC <bc@freeuk.com> wrote:
>
> You mean, as a way of machine-reading what has been typed?
>
> Simpler (in concept at least!) might be to use a microphone, and make use of 
> the differences in the noise made by the different keys. A bit like speech 
> recognition. But it would need to be customised to each typewriter (and 
> possibly to the typist, as well as likely to make use of probabilities when 
> there is ambiguity between keys, so if T and Z sound similar, then 'cat' is 
> more likely than 'caz').
>
> Another way is to use a camera simply looking at which levers are moving. I 
> think this might be a better idea...

That reminds me of a project I came across a few years ago where someone
built a floppy disk stacker to automate copying them onto modern disk
storage.

He incorporated a digital camera which took a photo of each floppy before
it was fed into floppy drive and thus acquire label images to match the
contents of each floppy.

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I Built a Keyboard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-19 13:50 +0000
  Re: I Built a Keyboard whiskers@sleepy.cat - 2014-10-19 15:28 +0000
    Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-19 14:38 -0400
  Re: I Built a Keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-20 18:53 +0000
    Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-20 16:09 -0400
      Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-21 00:42 +0100
        Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-20 22:13 -0400
          Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-21 10:43 +0100
        Re: I Built a Keyboard scott@alfter.diespammersdie.us (Scott Alfter) - 2014-10-21 17:07 +0000
          Re: I Built a Keyboard RS Wood <rsw@therandymon.com> - 2014-10-21 17:42 +0000
          Re: I Built a Keyboard Rich <rich@example.invalid> - 2014-10-21 23:20 +0000
        Re: I Built a Keyboard Theo Markettos <theom+news@chiark.greenend.org.uk> - 2014-10-22 14:23 +0100
          Re: I Built a Keyboard "BartC" <bc@freeuk.com> - 2014-10-23 14:22 +0100
            Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-23 14:03 -0400
            Re: I Built a Keyboard Paul Sture <nospam@sture.ch> - 2014-10-23 22:03 +0200
              Re: I Built a Keyboard Michael Black <et472@ncf.ca> - 2014-10-24 15:44 -0400

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