Cherokee typeball for the Selectric Typewriter
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This is a typeball for the IBM Selectric family of typewriters that enables the user to write in the Cherokee syllabary.
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- BSD License
YOU PROBABLY SHOULDN'T PRINT THIS!
Update, July 7 2023: Dave Hayden took the resin-printed typeball concept and improved on it greatly. I'm extremely grateful that he took on all the hard work of iteratively going through and dialing in the perfect values to make a functional ball, and I'm pleased to think I contributed in some way to his achievements.
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This is a typeball designed to work with the IBM Selectric typewriters that take 88-character type elements. This one uses a slightly modified version of the Cherokee keyboard layout found in Windows operating systems. The font is Digohweli by Chris Harvey. More information about the 3D printed typeballs can be found at the Github repo for the project.
I have not yet printed and tested this exact model! I tested a previous revision which was just a bit too tall; shaved 0.2 mm off the height. You can see me typing with it here.
To affix the typeball to the typewriter, you will need a small clip such as this one or a bent wire.
The blank ball (not the letters) is an edited version of the OpenSCAD Selectric Typeball by 1944GPW and is licensed with the Creative Commons - Attribution license.