USB Morse Code Keyboard Update

???? what happened to the maple syrup ? ????
;-)

 

Stay tuned for a future video update on that... gotta wait for the sap to finish running!

 

Thought she was tapping out CW on a maple tree with a hammer, Hi HI .... ..

 

Please do not add/commit intermediate files as shown in the video. This is not good source management policy. You should only commit your actual source change, just one line, and leave the rest as ignored "stuff" that gets regenerated anyway during the build. This huge commit has a bunch of useless binary and intermediate files that only mucks up the works for the next person.

-- Jim Lieb, retired Linux and networking mainainer.

 

I agree with Jim and I'll be submitting a pull request later today to remove the intermediate files and update .gitignore to ignore them in the future.

 

KEYBOARD for morse-code i can picture the purists foaming at the mouth lol....i wonder if anyone has thought of doing FT8 with a Paddle

 

Yeah. "Where's the SKILL? The computer is doing all the work!" DUCK! Another head is exploding!

 

I don't see the relation since a keyboard isn't used for FT8.

 

It's not a keyboard sending code, it's a paddle that you can use to send keyboard presses via a computer.
I think its cool.

 

Yep not quite foaming but shaking my head

 

How does this compare to a WinKeyer USB by K1EL?
I like that my WinKeyer works well with my logging and contesting programs.

 

If I understand thinks, winkeyer works to _generate_ Morse code from a computer. This project works to _receive and decode_ morse code and then emulate the keyboard input _to_ a computer. Makes for some interesting and fun chains of computers talking to each other with morse code

Who here wants to send ascii e-mail or edit a document using a paddle?

-Jon

 

Ok, I misunderstood this project.

It does not receive CW type morse code. Instead it uses a paddle as a 'dot or dash' input, and then decodes these to characters. It then is supposed to mimic a keyboard and send the characters to a computer. So if you know how to use an iambic paddle to send morse code, you can use that paddle with this gizmo in place of an external keyboard.

However this device would not function with (say) received audio or a straight key.

Note that such is possible, and has been done with the arduino platform, so I think it would be entirely plausible to combine the concepts and have a single straight key functioning as your computer external keyboard.

-Jon

 

Has anyone ever thought to add the space character to an actual keyboard to morse encoder/decoder type software so two computers can communicate with CW without the errors that come with the spacing? Maybe this is a non issue... Just curious. I know a lot of people are using keyboards during contests to do 50+ wpm back/forth...