A Second Life For Dead Hard Drives

[AndyUU1CC] has put together directions on how he built an Iambic Paddle out of some old hard drives. The iambic paddle is a device for telegraphy. More specifically, it is that piece that you always see people clicking with their finger when they send a telegraph. We hadn’t seen an iambic or “dual lever” style before, but we now know that this is not an uncommon design. While it is ultimately just a fancy set of switches, we can’t help but be impressed with the looks of it.

[via instructables]

21 thoughts on “A Second Life For Dead Hard Drives

  1. Why do people use the abortion that is “instructables”? I utterly hate that place, plus their whoring of everyone elses content by asking for subscriptions to access conten in a non-crappy way.

  2. Iambic keyers are all right but what people should be building the shit out of are multiambic keyers, hand free chording keyboards. Steve Mann’s book Intelligent Image Processing has basic instructions and I think that section is available online too, just search for wearcomp keyer or multiambic keyer howto.

  3. neat

    Instrucatbles hate, “oh ill leave my email on a wordpress blog but sign into instructables? !HORSESHIT, 3rd party proxie, blah blah blah”

    I dont get it, quit being a lazy ass and sign in

  4. I have a perfectly good login for Instructables, but I can’t be arsed to use it just to read a story. I used to click around their site quite a lot just to see if I could find a nugget.
    Now I don’t bother unless it was reposted somewhere.

  5. He’s got a pretty good fist going on that key, his code is clean and clear so the key obviously works very well… he had a good idea and executed it well.

    And you Indestructable-haters… if you haven’t got the sense to log in there, then that’s your problem not theirs. *rolls eyes*

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