Comments on: Wearable XBee Morse code keyer

By: aka-44

aka-44 — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 18:40:02 +0000

@3d:

how will that help me get pix of her?

By: 3D

3D — Wed, 17 Dec 2008 06:33:51 +0000

@aka-44:

Get out more. Seriously.

By: aka-44

aka-44 — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 00:44:12 +0000

woah.. she’s hot.. pix please.

By: VonSkippy

VonSkippy — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:41:48 +0000

@spadefinger: Lol – more like Syler’s “slow” brother who only thinks he has powers.

By: matt joyce

matt joyce — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:32:59 +0000

well, I’ll say this… the one on the right is a total stud muffin. I dunno about that muppet looking girl though. And why isn’t there a more manly thread friendly arduino clone…

By: Roger

Roger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 18:01:18 +0000

Can we read anything into these two looking just like the video shop owner and his girlfriend in Men in Black II (albeit with more hair)?

I guess they must’ve only spent $1 on their lobster dinner and it was full of mercury…

By: spadefinger

spadefinger — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:22:43 +0000

The guy kinda reminds me of sylar…

Now the glove looks all sinister…

By: strider_mt2k

strider_mt2k — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 17:14:05 +0000

awww, just like edison and his wife.

nice.

By: alicia

alicia — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:12:26 +0000

@melt and @liam actually there isn’t a microcontroller on the glove, it’s just the lilypad circuit board with Xbee nicely attached for ease of sewing. Because the Xbee itself would be damn near impossible to sew those little pins.

By: DigitalMind

DigitalMind — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:39:25 +0000

Ha ha when I was a kid I had one of those “project” kits from Radio shack to build my own mini transmitter .. It was very easy.

Then I discovered Ham Radio … and nothing has been the same since. :)

By: pokey

pokey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:30:45 +0000

I was mistaken. It was one cap and one resistor. Replace the resistor with a resistive sensing element and you’ve got yourself a tiny telemetry transmitter.

http://www.uoguelph.ca/~antoon/circ/rft1.htm

By: pokey

pokey — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:26:45 +0000

I remember something from one of the Radio Shack topical project “notebooks” that had an AM transmitter you could build from a plain NPN transistor, a couple of resistors, a 1.5v battery, and a hand-wound coil that just happened to be the diameter of a Bic pen. Combine that with an old AM radio and you’ve got yourself a project.

By: PKM

PKM — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:13:16 +0000

I totally thought of this when I was in school! I wanted to build a simple transmitter/receiver “dead bug style” inside a pen, using the button on the end as a key and having a tiny LED somewhere so you could message people with a similar pen. The only problem is you’d need to learn morse :)

Actually, now I think about it you can use a 1MHz oscillator as a simple AM transmitter than can be picked up by commercial radios tuned to 1000. Perhaps I’ll resurrect the idea.

By: liam

liam — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 11:19:44 +0000

@ melt
because the goal of the course was to use the xbee’s. But it does seem like they could have thought of some more innovative ideas than morse code…

By: melt

melt — Mon, 15 Dec 2008 10:41:04 +0000

That’s great, but why does it need an entire microcontroller and stuff to transmit morse over radio, when a little transmitter/receiver chip will do the same job with less bulk?