Twitter Typewriter

A typewriter that posts to Twitter

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A broken down typewriter doing OCR and posting to twitter. Starting to take shape as a complete appliance!

Check it out at https://twitter.com/typewriterghost

The OCR isn't perfect, and sometimes I prefer it that way. Imperfection gives it a little bit of soul.

The project has been updated from using folded metal to 3d printed components and an effort to give it a bit of a steampunk look. It's a work/evolution in progress as I have time and the inclination and inspiration to work on it.

Details

Type something on the typewriter
Press the button wired to the GPIO
Raspberry Pi uses the Raspberry Pi camera to snap a picture of the typed page
Raspberry Pi uses Image Magick for post processing
Raspberry Pi uses Tesseract to Perform OCR
Raspberry Pi uses Tweepy to post Image + OCR text to https://twitter.com/typewriterghost

LCD Display shows what stage the Pi is at in the process.

*note - the Typewriter is a piece of junk that I found and needs some TLC