Tweetlite flashes Twitter messages in Morse code

Posted by Joel Johnson, April 16, 2009 10:38 AM | permalink

"Tweetlite" is a Arduino-powered plexiglass cube that displays a person's Twitter stream in LED flashes of Morse code. That would probably drive me nuts (although its creator Bruce Drummond does make a good point about its usefulness as a Morse code learning aid), but I've always been a sucker for ambient lights communicating status, even if in practice it can be a bit tedious.

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#1 posted by royaltrux, April 16, 2009 11:27 AM

Older amateur radio operators who tweet will love it. I'm assuming that is a small demographic, though. The small demographic thing is also probably why Morse code is not generally offered as an input method for texting on regular cell phones. I wish it was...

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#2 posted by dross1260, April 16, 2009 11:43 AM

-... .-. .. -.. --. . --- ..- - .- .... . .- -..

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#3 posted by huntsu, April 16, 2009 11:50 AM

This may be stupider than the pet rock.

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#4 posted by royaltrux, April 16, 2009 12:43 PM

@#2 i I crashed in to the river while trying to read that. Bad idea for road signs...

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#5 posted by Scuba SM, April 16, 2009 7:45 PM

@2 and 4,