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I Made a Comic Sans Typewriter

It is so close to working, I can't wait for rev 2

Also, notice the attached photo isn't the comic sans ball, it's the other test football I made! It's the Cherokee syllabary; I stayed as true as possible to the Microsoft keyboard layout but had to take some liberties.

The original Comic Sans Typewriter is the Sincerity Machine by Jesse England and I love it dearly: http://jesseengland.net/project/sincerity-machine-the-comic-sans-typewriter/

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I made a Cherokee typewriter

Some of the ball is wrong—I missed the syllable Ꮖ qua, so I couldn't write out the city ᏓᎵᏆ Talequah, or say something like ᏌᎽᎡᎴ ᏓᏆᏙ "my name is Samuel". I was able to write ᎠᎹᏗᎧᏂᎬᎬ ᏗᎨᎬ "I am from Nowata"—apocryphally, the name is Lenape in origin and the Cherokee name translates to "water is all gone" (i.e., "no water") making it an example of both a Lenape-English Eggcorn AND an English-Cherokee Calque, making it the only instance I know of a 🎵trilingual eggcalque🎵

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It wasn't easy! There's an existing attempt on Thingiverse that is maybe 75% of the way there, but getting those drafted angles on the letterforms turned out to be MUCH HARDER than expected. I can understand why no one's done DIY typeballs yet!

I'll have an open-source version out soon, I hope, but it does require you to have python, the pymeshlab library, and a relatively recent nightly build of OpenSCAD, so I understand that's asking a lot of users, hah! There might be a way to do it all in python, but I had some issues with Cadquery text extrusions that I just haven't had time to delve into yet!

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Video-Game-King
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Are the blurry letters because the ball's made out of (what I think is) silicon? In my mind, these balls were originally made out of metal, which is less likely to deform under pressure but also significantly more difficult to produce cheaply and in a hobbyist context.

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The originals are plastic with a coating of chrome paint! This one is 3D printed in Formlabs' Clear Resin, which has a pretty good toughness and doesn't deform in use. The blurry letters might be a side-effect of my terrible out-of-focus photography 😅

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I love that syllabary so much that it makes me want to invent a special typewriter that physically rotates the type elements to represent different vowels

(I know some glyphs are mirrored, not just rotated, but I think some folks would be willing to overlook that detail in exchange for a whimsical overengineered typewriter)

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