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incidentally, these types of thermal ink tape typewriters are infamous for being notorious security liabilities. the way they print on regular paper is thru melting off ink similar to toner onto paper, leaving a very clear negative of whatever you wrote onto the disposable tape

the typewriter itself is neat but clearly a very cost-cut model about a decade into the typestar line. earlier models had options such as serial and typeface cartridges, which this lacks. it can print on regular paper, provided you have the rare thermal tape, or any thermal paper

turns out emulating a matrix keyboard is a bit more involved than just pulling a wire high or low, and would require quite a few ancillary ICs than just a microcontroller. unfortunately i see no other point of attack to automate keypresses on this rn, defeating my plan for now

Canon Typestar 10-II electronic typewriter main board. CPU is a Renesas 3806-family, directly controlling keyboard matrix, LCD display, paper feeding and indirectly controlling printing head. i wanted to make it into a serial printer by emulating the keyboard matrix but no luck

were you constantly told to shut up as a kid or are you neurotypical

i want to make a game with a story. but i don't know what story i want to tell... (not looking for story suggestions, but suggestions on how i go about finding out what story *i* want to tell are welcome)

this should've probably been a blog post on my website, oops 😊

i don't draw or compose for myself anymore, but i don't think i ever did. and i wouldn't know how to start now

and i kinda got the same way with visual arts too. i've had different computer drawing tablets since i was a kid in 2006 because i wanted to create, but as soon as i found a medium i can comfortably work in (pixel art) the first thing i did was open commissions for it

there's a few games out there w/ soundtracks penned by me, a couple of them even on Steam. and i think that's the point where i can't even recognize why i want to make music anymore. sometimes i'll write a really cool loop i can bop to for a while but never full minutes-long song

the competitions were harsh, i never really won many (or sometimes any) of them, but it switched me from making what i want into making what others want. optimizing my workflow to make the best possible result others will like. and that's when i started making contract work

i started making music around 2007 or do through finding madtracker 2 and famitracker, and i think that was about the extent of when i composed just because i wanted to have stuff that sounded like other things but i was the one who made it. soon afterwards id join online compos

i don't think i ever made much in my creative endeavours for my own self. it's always because i wanted it to be part of something bigger, or because i wanted others to like it. even if i internalize that, i wouldn't know *what* i would want to make for myself, it's so hard.