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Do-It-Yourself Electronic Enigma Machine

Posted by timothy on from the beats-pig-latin dept.

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."

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  1. This is what other people say about the Enigma-E by mattjb0010 · · Score: -1, Troll

    ...George and I enjoyed building it very much. It provided several years of entertainment. With it, we were able to work out that the baddie Osama was definitely hiding out in some place called Afghanistan. We went and kicked some Arab butt which was a lot of fun, but he escaped somehow and now we can't find him. We also found out that Osama's friend Saddam had some bad weapons. We told our buddies about it, and they wanted to kick some Arab butt too. So we told some other people that the weapons were really bad. Our pal Tony who lives across the river even told people that the weapons were all ready to use. We got Saddam really good.

    --Donald

  2. Oh! well! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Yeah, this is all well and good... UNTIL you are branded a NAZI WAR CRIMINAL or some kind of SUBVERSIVE ANTI-CAPITOLIST IRAQI SYMPATHIZER by the FBI.

    An anyhow, if you were a real patriot, why would you need to use an evil foreign nazi code machine? eh?
    Damn Commies.

    (please note: my brain functions on its own aenda and is not to be associated with the opinions or actions of my patriotic, american body. Heil Bush!)

  3. niggers by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    are gayw

  4. Wow! by rjoseph · · Score: -1, Troll

    Now I can spend countless hours creating a real, true-to-life fake of a machine that has been obsolete for only 50 years! WOOO HOOO!

    Oh look, a spoon. I shall commence stabbing myself with it.

  5. Re:What's the point? by Henry+V+.009 · · Score: 0, Troll

    I did that in high school. It's pretty easy.