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uxx | 1 year ago

Their is no way this thing has any real use cases apart from emailing gibberish to yourself.

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dmd|1 year ago

It's been working reliably for me for a few weeks now, 1 or 2 messages a night.

To be clear - I am not sending myself long emails! I am sending one or two words, like "TEMP PROB" or "MULCH" to jog my memory in the morning. And for that, it has worked flawlessly.

martyvis|1 year ago

I would imagine that if you just had a switch connected to nowhere, in the morning you would remember what you Morse coded in any case just because it has raised your alertness

wkjagt|1 year ago

This is Hacker News. Part of what makes it fun is that we show cool projects we did.

Also, from the guidelines: "Please don't post shallow dismissals, especially of other people's work. A good critical comment teaches us something."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

simplecto|1 year ago

pipe that through an LLM and you will have a page full of word salad :-)

but seriously, this is a neat idea. and kudos to OP for building a full prototype -- this is the level of geekery I show up for.

I remember the days of T9 on the old Nokia phones. I was so good that I didn't have to look down at the screen.

My favorites were fixed in my phone. I knew how many down clicks on the button would land on the right friend/family member. I could literally send messages from my pocket.

And yes, I admit -- I did engage in texting while driving. And this is the part where I justify it -- "but I had eyes on the road the whole time!"

Oh! and there was old skits on late nite where people woudl compete with the old morse code guys.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuRE-Bwk1U

pavel_lishin|1 year ago

That sounds like a very real use-case to me.

beala|1 year ago

Platforms like the Pico have significantly reduced the cost of one-off niche electronics, and that’s great actually.