The ROKR wooden typewriter: a closer look

http://writingball.blogspot.com/2026/05/the-rokr-wooden-typewriter-closer-look.html

#HackerNews #ROKR #wooden #typewriter #vintage #design #craftsmanship #tech #history

In my forthcoming novel, Aether and Ego, they leave Earth in 1821 and because they didn't have the technology at the time to be absolutely air-tight, Charles Babbage invents the "airator." When the one in her room stops ticking, the silence wakes her, and she goes downstairs to find Mr. Collins talking to her mother about courting Jane. People who know the original will remember this scene, but it all happens differently in my version.

Excited to turn this bit of wooden clockwork into an airator - a fabulous prop for readings!

Pre-orders are available here:
* Canada only (signed): https://halifax.bookmarkreads.ca/item/vMQnshzt5ubbm9QKkWp_Hw
* All other options: https://joannemerriam.com/books/aether-and-ego/

#PrideAndPrejudice #JaneAusten #Austenesque #Austenite #AetherAndEgo #ROKR #ROKRDIY #Miniatures #bookstodon #books

Marble Spaceport ROKR LGC01 Marble Run | Unboxing-Build-Review | 3D Puzzle Robotime

Marble Spaceport ROKR LGC01 Marble Run | Unboxing-Build-Review | 3D Puzzle Robotime

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7RE_uCvGouk

Montei um modelo 3D Manta Ray da ROKR! #review #tech #unboxing #rokr

Montei um modelo 3D Manta Ray da ROKR! #review #tech #unboxing #rokr.

via YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lCVmSEctGL4

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With the omega wheel and the landscape display orientation it makes me think this phone was meant to be the original "iPod phone". Sadly it arrived waaaaaay too late to the party.

Read my personal story of Motorola ROKR E8 here: https://museum.tiredsysadmin.cc/UNIX/Linux/Motorola_ROKR_E8

#vintagecomputing #vintagecellphones #retrocomputing #motorola #rokr #embeddedlinux

Eldest & I finished their #Rokr Mechanical Music Box (shortly before they turn 9), doing about an hour or so each day over the last week of summer holidays.

The box does suggest 14+ which might be fair for a solo project - this was fiddly, but little hands could be an advantage. This was an ambitious Christmas present, but enjoyable!