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."

Comments

Who needs one?

[Sub-MOA]

I'll drop one off at Bletchley on the way to picking up my Gray's Sports Almanac.

Re:What's the point?

[The Snowman]

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???

Re:applet

[The Snowman]

I wonder if the real Nazi Enigma machines also had Java.lang.NullPointerException errors...

Re:Electronic Version? Why not just use software

[kinema]

Maybe people just want a new elctronic device so they can attempt to port Linux and/or NetBSD.

LEGO Mindstorms

[Anonymous Coward]

I always thought it would be cool to make an Enigma from LEGO.

Re:What's the point?

[beaverfever]

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!*

Mine says....

[ioscan]

Drink more Ovaltine.