BBCNEWS Click June 4, 2024 15:46:00
Bored during lockdown. that's right, you are, i was pretty bored, staring at a screen, stuck inside my house so i thought i'd build something with my hands. the machine has been laser cut from mdf and although it doesn't look like the original it is wired in the same way. after each letter is typed, the wheels or rotors on the top are rotated so the next letter is encoded in a different way. what goes on inside each of the rotors is the electrical current from one of these contact pins underneath is being transferred to another contact pin through these wires. you press the letter and it gets ...