The Man and Boy spent quite a lot of Sunday building an excellent electricity project mostly using stuff from the train room in the basement. It has a moving engine, buildings with lights - the works. Unfortunately, having enjoyed putting it together, the Boy had a change of heart about taking it into school to share with his class. Oh dear. This happens sometimes.But seeing a few of his classmates' projects on Monday inspired him to a different endeavour: Morse. He and the Man have assembled a machine this evening, and I'm impressed. The best thing about it is that even though one of their shop-bought switches broke, they managed to make a functional replacement out of cardboard and aluminium foil.
The machine features two sets of everything, to enable back-and-forth conversation. Now if a couple of us come down with sore throats we'll have an alternative means of communication - how handy.
Takes me back to my youth!
ReplyDeleteIve got lots of electrical bits in the garage.Pity I cant get them to you
That post title gives me amp-le potential for comment, but I'm resistoring.
ReplyDeleteWatts all this? A POWERful way of throwing light on the subject!
ReplyDeleteNot just light - noise too. Oh yes, there are buzzers...Morse the pity.
ReplyDeleteAll this punnery is your volt, Exile! You should be charged with battery.
ReplyDeleteBtw, did no-one see the popular culture pun in the text?
Wire you being so negative about this?
ReplyDeleteI'm not really the man for popular culture puns, but Lou is.
Do any of the instruments come from Oxford? Is the local music loving detective on the case? It will be murder!
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