Andrew Paul is Popular Science's staff writer covering tech news. Previously, he was a regular contributor to The A.V. Club and Input, and has had recent work featured by Rolling Stone, Fangoria, GQ, Slate, NBC, as well as McSweeney's Internet Tendency. He lives outside Indianapolis.
ArticleBody:You’ll likely never need to chat with anyone using Morse code—but the skill remains an impressive and historically significant method of communication. There’s even still a dedicated international community of hobbyists sending out daily “dits” and “dahs” to one another.
Even so, it wouldn’t be until 1999 that Morse code was officially retired as the international standard for long-range maritime communications in favor of satellite technology. While electronics have advanced exponentially since Morse code’s debut, Pavleski’s translator is similarly basic by modern standards—an Arduino Nano microcontroller board, a small LCD screen, a tiny processor chip, a couple capacitors, a resistor and diode, as well as some additional wiring.
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