<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; ">I know someone in the club will want to build one of these...<br><div><br><div>Begin forwarded message:</div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Date: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">February 25, 2011 9:51:58 AM EST<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>To: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;">Clarence Rudd<br></span></div><div style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px;"><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium; color:rgba(0, 0, 0, 1);"><b>Subject: </b></span><span style="font-family:'Helvetica'; font-size:medium;"><b>Morse For The Hard-Core: Replace Your Keyboard with a Key</b><br></span></div><br><div style="margin: 0px 2px; padding-top: 1px; background-color: #c3d9ff; font-size: 1px !important; line-height: 0px !important;"> </div>
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<div style="margin-bottom: 0.5em">via <a href="http://blog.makezine.com/" class="f">Make: Online</a> by Sean Michael Ragan on 2/25/11</div><br style="display:none"><p><a href="http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/2011/02/morsekey.jpg"><img src="http://cdn.makezine.com/make/blogs/blog.makezine.com/2011/02/morsekey.jpg" alt="" title="morsekey" width="600" height="450"></a></p><p>Here’s a practically guaranteed way to get yourself over the hump and learn Morse, from Australian <a href="http://us.cactii.net/~bb/morsekey/">Ben Buxton</a>. The USB key interface is built into a mint tin and provides a dual input port for a standard USB keyboard to access non-Morse characters. A numeric display on the tin reports your coding speed, and tapping out “SOS” without letterspaces brings up the settings menu in software.</p><p>Got to agree with tipster Alan Dove, who quipped that any project successfully mixing Arduino, mint tins, USB interfaces, and International Morse Code results in “unassailable geek cred.” [Thanks, <a href="http://alandove.com/">Alan</a>!] </p><div><br class="webkit-block-placeholder"></div></div>
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