How to make a binary mechanical keyboard

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That was my first thought… My second thought was “somebody must have made it” – bonus points for an actual morse code switch.
http://us.cactii.net/~bb/morsekey/

Using it is really easy. The hard part is knowing Morse code! But assuming you know it... 
Plug it into your computer. Your OS may report a new keyboard connected.
Configure the keyboard.
    Open up a blank text window, such as a text editor.
    Press the learn button. You will see "Learning. Enter "-.-.-"".
    Enter the Morse 'start' code, dah-di-dah-di-dah.
    The keyboard will report the dit and dah times, then drop into normal mode. 
Use the morse key anywhere you would use a keyboard!
Change settings
    Your current speed will be displayed on the LEDs.
    To enter settings, enter SOS (di-di-dit-dah-dah-dah-di-di-dit)
    Enter the number to select the option.
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All the letters of a given encoding are the same length.

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Most folks have eight fingers (and two space-key pushers). Make it a chording board and you can type a whole byte at a time. :laughing:

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That’s what it feels like to use a very high level language/framework to perform basic tasks: great, I flipped a boolean, and it only took a few hundred function calls and, for whatever reason, half a gig of RAM!

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That’s exactly what Steven Roberts did, back in the 1980’s. Direct ASCII input from the handlebars of his recumbent bicycle. The link provides fascinating details. Trivia; the amateur radio magazine he wrote for, “73” was published by the person who first published “BYTE” magazine. http://microship.com/on-the-road-and-on-the-air-73-amateur-radio/

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