Vintage typewriters are truly amazing pieces of technology, but unlike modern keyboards, they are decidedly one-purpose machines. William Sun Petrus, however, had other ideas for his 1920s-era Remington Portable typewriter, augmenting hammers with wires as inputs to an Arduino Mega. Input signals are produced when each key strikes a metallic “live plate” in the center, … Continue reading This maker turned an antique typewriter into a MIDI drum machine