I'm certainly not the first to theorize that if there is a greater than zero probability of something happening then you'll find it happening on the Internet. So it was when I stumbled across this home brew creation of Martin Kaltenbrunner. Martin has created a Morse code key that decodes whatever you hammer out and sends it to a Twitter account, thus neatly bridging more than 160 years of history while ranking fairly high on the, "But why?" scale. I have no idea why Martin created the Tworsekey but you have to admit that it looks great and I wouldn't mind having one siting on my desk.
"I am often asked how radio works. Well, you see, wire telegraphy is like a very long cat. You yank his tail in New York and he meows in Los Angeles. Do you understand this? Now, radio is exactly the same, except that there is no cat." : Albert Einstein
Monday, January 30, 2012
Twittering Morse Key - Tworsekey
I'm certainly not the first to theorize that if there is a greater than zero probability of something happening then you'll find it happening on the Internet. So it was when I stumbled across this home brew creation of Martin Kaltenbrunner. Martin has created a Morse code key that decodes whatever you hammer out and sends it to a Twitter account, thus neatly bridging more than 160 years of history while ranking fairly high on the, "But why?" scale. I have no idea why Martin created the Tworsekey but you have to admit that it looks great and I wouldn't mind having one siting on my desk.
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computer,
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micro-controller,
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