[DIY & Creativity] Morse kit that do morse!

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. :smiling_face_with_tear:

And for a while I gave up. :pensive_face:

But then I came back at it. Because insanity is never giving up, or something I guess? :laughing:

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!!! :tada:

(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 :grinning_face_with_smiling_eyes: )

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Wow. This is such a cool kit. :heart_eyes:

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This is a very nice kit.

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Wow that is amazing!!

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Wow!! You’re so clever to work this out!
Well done.
I am in awe of your determination in wishing to make this a working machine. To see that you have achieved it is brilliant! Congratulations.

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I just realised I did not post the code if anyone wants to do the same! (sorry for the comments in french, I code in my language XD)

You’ll need an ESP32 as well (findable for cheap on amazon) and some connective thread to “highjack” the button press into the ESP32.

If you got multiple ESP32 on the same wifi you can send message to them as well.
So you could have someone in one room sending messages to someone in another room. Accross buildings. Need to be the same wifi though. Might be a way to overcome that, if anyone wants to give it a try XD

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