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This made me think: I bet someone could use a Raspberry Pi interface to connect a telegraph key to a computer, and use Morse Code to talk to the computer.
Now I want to see that done.
@ScottSoCal I know someone connected an RSS feed aggregator to a morse receiver a few years back... it'd just start tapping things out whenever something new showed up. Not sure it's been done the other way though.
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK let’s add smoke signals and semaphore flags to the list whilst we’re at it.
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK handful of videos on YouTube about it. Between keyboard, radio, & anachronistic folk Id be surprised if there wasn't pre-built kits.
@ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK But why a RasPi? A ATmega32u4 should be enough for that! They can emulate a HID, and one digital input pin is enough... Maybe with v-usb, even a tiny85 would suffice...
@wonka @ScottSoCal @Standplaats_KRK an off-the-shelf pro micro, slap QMK on it, and write some glue to interpret morse to keycodes. Kinda like tapdances, but not quite.
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Toots like this make Mastodon feel like a secret club for inventors where we meet every Saturday in our treehouse to exchange parts and plans.
@ScottSoCal I'd be kind of surprised if no one has ever done it.