Not sure if this belongs here but here goes…
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Does anyone else miss Letraset , Mylar and T-squares?
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Yes! But I must say, a good paint program and a color printer is good for modeling. I do wish I could find either a good blank decal paper that won’t melt in a laser printer, or an inkjet printer that doesn’t use water-based inks that run and smear on decal paper.
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I print a lot of labels. This might not be exactly what you’re looking for, but I’ve had good results with these. It shows inkjet on top, but then laser.
https://www.onlinelabels.com/materials/weatherproof-labels
This company also sells ones that I’ve used for warning stickers on glass tea kettles. I don’t use mine as often as my client, but a year later, my label is just like when I attached it.
I have no stake in this, I’m just a customer of that site.
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Unfortunately what I need is the letters only, without the white space around them! It’s for putting signs on models of buildings; the wood siding or brick or whatever needs to be visible between the letters, to look like it was painted on.
I neglected to mention that I use clear decal paper – or have tried to but have had limited success. People have used old ALP printers, that used a dye that worked great (including white ink!), but they’re no longer made.
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I loved it when pops would bring the mostly used sheets home.
@kxkvi
clear decal paper
Have you tried the stuff that you print out and then spray a special lacquer over it? I’ve seen good results from other people, didn’t work out for me…
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Yeah, I tried that. It worked, but the ink was blurred when it came out of the printer. At least with the sheets, printer, and ink I was using.
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my imaginative capacities are sorely taxed.
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I have two problems with his video:
Surely the “Ghostbusters” is a recording, not text to speech.
He didn’t mention S.A.M, which was much better than this using software.
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Have they come out with one for Raspberry Pi? I bought myself a Pi 4 for Christmas, and I feel the need coming on to build a Dalek with it… “EXTERMINATE!”
That seems to be just the kind of sweet talk the Sweet Talker was built for. 
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A different, possibly functioning unit, demonstrated with a real zx spectrum.
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Well, I am sizing it up for a dedicated DAW, think updated Fairlight CMI.
I got the PI 4B 4 GB kit from Canakit, and set it up a few days ago. Had a few problems with the desktop bleeding off the edges of my somewhat elderly HDMI monitor until I commented out a desktop overlay line in config.txt, but it looks good and works well so far. I’ve installed Lazarus and Musescore 2 so far.
What I did find mind-blowing was that it came bundled with what looks to be a pretty complete install of Mathematica. Try buying a Mathematica hobbyist’s licence for your PC. It will set you back the equivalent of CAD 685.
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That’s really fucking cool.
Might actually pick one up for that.
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Oh, crap, it has more access than my Lenova: 2 x USB 3; 2 x USB 2; USB C connector (power); WiFi; Bluetooth; GigE Ethernet; 2 x mini HDMI ports; SanDisk reader; plus the 40 GPIO pins. I’ve seen at least one HAT available to hook up 3 Pi Zeroes to the board, so a compact low-power compute cluster is entirely possible.
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That sounds much better.
Gives me a whole new reason to object to that earlier video.
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This is similar to how Siri works but they didn’t have the voice samples to make it talk realistically. I wrote a manual for an early speech command function for BellSouth and spoke with the linguist involved on that project. This was wretched but an important first step. Tech takes time to happen.
Oh, they made joysticks and Sweet Talkers??? Party on dudes.
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there seems not to be a part 2.
I remember playing around with this
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