RSS telegraph puts the challenge back into reading the news

by Evan Blass posted Mar 30th 2007 at 7:07AM

It would be one thing if the Steampunk Workshop had just salvaged an old telegraph machine and hacked it to translate RSS feeds for kicks, but no, these guys went all out and machined by hand what is at the same time one of the best-looking and most useless projects we're ever seen. Still, modding culture doesn't necessarily place the highest value on functionality, and the detailed instructions and videos provided by SW ensure that you can come up with something just as polished. Anyway, this one looks like it's gonna take you awhile -- especially if you don't have your own band saw -- so take a quick peek at the vid after the break and then get on over to the hardware store post haste; and you do manage to build a working replica, don't forget to do the totally meta thing and send us a vid or MP3 of your creation tap tap tapping this very post out in Morse Code.

[Via MAKE:]

Filed under: Misc. Gadgets

Tags: rss, steampunk, telegraph

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Jeff @ Mar 30th 2007 7:24AM

Dude, I'm more interested in that keyboard. wtf is that??

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elan @ Mar 30th 2007 7:38AM

http://www.engadget.com/2007/02/23/steampunk-ibm-keyboard-mod/

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strider_mt2k @ Mar 30th 2007 8:56AM

Oh man, I'd have to work to get back to 5WPM again!
5WPM is going to make for a LONG session.

I do know some lightning-fisted Amateur operators that would go gah-gah over something like this.

Don't let Morse Code die. It's too cool.

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BAMF @ Mar 30th 2007 3:15PM

I think this would be cooler if they made an RSS reader that output to an old paper stock ticker.

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