See how many words per minute you can key in Morse code.
There are several ways of going about this. We’ll decide on one together.
- Following the lead of Rachel Sagner Buurma’s Critical Making: Telegraph + Twitter class, we could use the tworsekey “open design exercise in interface archaeology that decodes the input from a classic Morse telegraph to send twitter messages.”
- The simple wood, copper, 9V battery key and sounder method.
- There’s a section on making a telegraph in The Knowledge: How to Rebuild Civilization in the Aftermath of a Cataclysm (2015), a tongue-in-cheek guide to DIY infrastructures for surviving the apocalypse.
And check out these Morse code emulators:
- morsecode.me, a chat app for people who know Morse code, with rooms for beginners up to experts. Live transcription of messages on screen. Also transmits stories from Reuters, NY Times, and TechCrunch.
- ditdah
- MorseCode.World translator