I turned my typewriter into a computer and built a custom mechanical keyboard for it. It was also featured in the most recent issue of the MagPi Magazine!

• serial-typewriter

  13 50 10.0 C++

  This is the Arduino code for my typewriter computer project.

I sadly can't solve the transistor crisis, but my Hackaday.io project page and GitHub repo might have enough information to point you in the right direction. I'm also working on turning my code into a library so it's even easier to work with, let me know if you have any questions!

• AX-25-mechanical-keyboard

  3 3 10.0

The source code and PCB project files (including the schematic) are available on GitHub if you want to take a closer look at them. The READMEs are a bit incomplete,

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• kmk_firmware

  67 1,253 8.6 Python

  Clackety Keyboards Powered by Python

  

It would be a really cool project! If you do decide to make it, you’d probably be able to use a similar circuit to mine to scan the Commodore’s keyboard. It might be easiest to wire up a Teensy or a Pico to the keyboard and connect them to the Pi over USB, so you dont have to worry too much about the Linux side of things. The KMK firmware is available for the Pico so that might make things a lot easier!

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