Hi everyone! So, some of you might remember a while back, when the steam city morse kit came out, and I was curious if it could be turned it into a functionnal morse machine, and Robotime said “oh that sound cool, here have the kit and try”
And then I tried, and encountered a looot of issues, the worst being that I never read the manual and realised only after months of work that this kit could only receive, not send, signals. ![]()
And for a while I gave up. ![]()
But then I came back at it. Because insanity is never giving up, or something I guess? ![]()
So, since signals were out, I figured, why not use the button directly?
Cue me buying some conductive thread, and trying my best to wrap it around the model so it’d be hidden as much as possible (it’s not perfect, but that’s the best I could do):
And fixing an ESP32 at the back, that’s the brain of this plan.
Last step was pulling out the old code I had and adapting it, setting it up to run online and… Well, see for yourselves guys!
I did it!!! My morse kit is a real morse machine now!!! ![]()
(I’m probably going to paint the case of the esp32 so it’s even more blending in, in brass color, and also figure out a way to supply electricity to both the model and the esp32 with a single cable, but for now, that’s it
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