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Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enigma Machine
Radio Shack Robot writes "The Enigma-E is a DIY Building Kit that enables you to build your own electronic variant of the famous Enigma coding machine that was used by the German army during WWII. It works just like a real Enigma and is compatible with an M3 and M4 Enigma as well as the standard Service Machines. A message encrypted on, say, a real Enigma M4 can be read on the Enigma-E and vice versa."
Try here.
I'll drop one off at Bletchley on the way to picking up my Gray's Sports Almanac.
I was thinking to myself "This is way too difficult to build..."
But then I noticed that the 65+ page manual includes:
How to build a wooden box
And if that wasn't enough, the fact that it has
Full 26-key keyboard with key-click sound
sealed the deal!
I really wanted to make a Darl joke, but alas...
Herzlicher Glukwunsch...If you're not going to do the real thing, why not just make a software replica?
What kind of geek are you? Don't you find it cool to have tons of useless hardware laying around???
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
I wonder if the real Nazi Enigma machines also had Java.lang.NullPointerException errors...
24 beers in a case, 24 hours in a day. Coincidence? I think not!
Here you go..
Decode this.
I have something in common with Stephen Hawking...
Maybe people just want a new elctronic device so they can attempt to port Linux and/or NetBSD.
"I wonder if there is anywhere to get original Nazi Enigma messages to decode."
Yes but where can I get some original Nazi's to send them to?
...read this as "Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enema Machine"? I probably wouldn't have if I knew what an Enigma Machine was (yeah yeah I'll read the stuff now)
I always thought it would be cool to make an Enigma from LEGO.
"Space Chase" translated to italian, to german, to french, to english, is "continuation of sector".
Even those who arrange and design shrubberies are under considerable economic stress at this period in history.
Is that once you have decoded them, which is a cool, "geek" task, they are in German! And translating German to English or whatever your language is is much less fun and much harder for the average geek ;-)
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I remember back in the day when you would go to the store and it was the only computer magazine there. ...and we'd have to walk 40 miles in the rain, up hill, to get to the store, and when we got there, magazines were only a nickel, but we'd have to save for a month just to get that nickel. Anyways, we'd get home with our magazines and read them by the light of an oil lamp, and we were happy!
Oh those computers, they were as big as a barn, and every time we booted them we'd have to punch in every line of *bonk!*
RTFM; please, I beg you.
Drink more Ovaltine.
Hey! Real geeks find it cool to have useless software and useless hardware lying around!!! Anyway I'm off to play The Grinch on my dreamcast... ;-)
They did, however the Nazis took a much harsher point of view on NullPointerException errors, and there were few that survived the war. In 1961 the new German government recognized the suffering they caused the NullPointerExceptions, and establised the free state of Javaoinia as a place to house the survivors. However, they accidently encroached on the territory owned by the SegFault republic, and the area is a hot bed for violent activity.