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Brainstorming

Jonas Zeunert edited this page 2023-02-13 21:46:58 +01:00

Table of Contents

• ATTY
• Description
• Brainstorming
• Milestones
• Hardware
• Parts
• To Buy
• To Bring Alone
• To Print
• Setup
• Software

ATTY

Description

Create a typewriter which prints from a PC out of an electrical one. Integrate a camera to do snapshots and convert them to ASCII Art.

Brainstorming

Milestones

1st Evening:

• Write arbitrary Text from pi

2nd evening:

• Take Picture
• Remove Background
• Scale / Crop
• Convert to Ascii
• Print

Nice to have

• Keyword based asciis (Eastereggs)
• Pictures from smartphone or other arbitrary source interface
• remote control

Hardware

Parts

To Buy

• Flachband Buchse reichelt
• 15 pole cable (shielded)
• Breadboard
• shield for microcontroller?!

To Bring Alone

• TypeWriter (Jonas)
• Raspberry Pi (min v2) (Jonas)
• Camera (JoJo)
• TTL Converter (Jojo, Jonas)
• Port extender (Jojo, Jonas)
• Breadboard (JoJo)
• MUX (Jonas)
• Papier
• 5V Power Supply 2A (micro)
• Ribbons?

To Print

• PI Case (Jonas)
• PI Cam Case (Jonas)

Setup

Software

• Camera to image

  • Interface:

  • Preferred: Original keyboard (also to type sth. like Penis :D)

  • Alternative: Cable release?

• Processing chain

  • Remove background github

  • Scale/Crop imagescale

  • Image to ASCII github

  • ASCII to serial