Comment Re:Morse Code (Score 1) 144
I'd presume that the device would translate the code into alphanumeric since the point of the article is having a replacement for a keyboard. In Morse code, there are two different kinds of breaks. there is the break between letters, and the break between words. A letter break is roughly the length of a dit, and a word break is roughly the length of a dah. (and a dah is the length of 3 dits). This means that space is just a letter like any other, and fairly efficient without the need of a special break key. On the contrary, having a break key would throw off your rhythm. When you learn Morse, you learn to subdivide like that. It's basically the same as being able to keep the beat when singing a song, it really isn't very difficult.
Fast coders use a device called a keyer. it has 2 paddles. One does a stream of dits, and the other does a solid tone (which you use to manually do dahs). You tune the speed of the stream of dits based on how quickly you can comfortably code.