Quite lovely to see in action. Apparently I am so primitive that I still think digital watches are a pretty neat idea.
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#12How did you make this google doc work like this? Pretty cool usage of the medium.
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#13The cap isn't on the pen properly, so it'll dry out. Share prices of marker pen manufacturers are going to soar! :)
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#14I missed the youtube video the first time around: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4QgeQAiSmM8
It's hilarious how while it's writing it looks like two small arms cupping the marker. Slap on a smiley-face sticker and you're ready to go to market.
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#15How do you go about setting up a custom device file like that (/dev/whiteboard)? Is it just writing a device driver?
I think you could just hook up an old pen plotter to your whiteboard.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6_pwzqPk6Gg
[EDIT] whatever it has been done before:
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=pen+plotter+whi...
But this of mechanic is certainly unique and adds a lot of clumsy robot charm.
Wonder how easily you could store human inputs with a kind of (reverse) Pantograph type device for reproduction.
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#16How do you go about setting up a custom device file like that (/dev/whiteboard)? Is it just writing a device driver?
The author says the device is a USB modem. So, under Linux, the author could have simply written a udev rule to use the name "whiteboard" for that particular USB modem's device file.
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#17I love the way it writes, it has so much personality.
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#19How do you go about setting up a custom device file like that (/dev/whiteboard)? Is it just writing a device driver?
The author says the device is a USB modem. So, under Linux, the author could have simply written a udev rule to use the name "whiteboard" for that particular USB modem's device file.
And even under plain-Jane Unix, you can name a device file whatever you want.
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#20It actually writes like an actual human! Love it.