Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
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Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#2This is very cool
Had just recently looked up IBM Selectric typeballs and the possibility of 3D print custom ones but did not expect so many active projects around it.
Pretty nice time for nostalgic tinkerers to be alive ...
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#3> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model!
Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#4Bill Hammack (engineerguy) has an excellent video on the IBM Selectric titled IBM Selectric Typewriter & its digital to analogue converter.[1]
Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#5> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model! Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
It’s not far fetched though. With careful design, prints often do work on the first try.
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#7Doing the devil's work.
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Re: Comic Sans typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters
#10> I have not yet printed and tested this exact model! Sadly that sums up the 3D printable scene perfectly. So many times I’v seen someone creating X for Y but they don’t have Y to test it but “it should work”.
It’s not far fetched though. With careful design, prints often do work on the first try.
Sure. And it's given away for free, so complaining feels wrong.
But is it _too_ much to ask that they print their tweaked version 2 and test it before publishing it?
:sigh: