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

by uxx 2y ago

simplecto 2y 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 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pRuRE-Bwk1U
dmd 2y 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 2y 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
beala 2y ago
Platforms like the Pico have significantly reduced the cost of one-off niche electronics, and that’s great actually.
pavel_lishin 2y ago
That sounds like a very real use-case to me.
wkjagt 2y 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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

by uxx 2y ago

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

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

dmd 2y 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 2y 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

beala 2y ago

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

pavel_lishin 2y ago

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

wkjagt 2y 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 https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html