AJ8T sent me the link to the web site of this, our latest Homebrew Hero. I don’t think she is a ham, but Tatjana definitely has The Knack. Check out that workmanship. The range of the projects is also quite astounding. It is so impressive that I really found myself questioning whether this could be for real. But it is.
When you look at the Enigma-like coding machine, note the cryptological challenge at the bottom. Tatjana won’t release the tech details of this project until someone cracks the encrypted Haiku! Go for it!
She’s amazing! Her Harmonium puts me in mind of Lord Kelvin’s smaller tide predictor. http://www.ssplprints.com/image.php?id=88331 The Bendix “Brain” also comes to mind. I owned one when I collected math instruments. Three ball n’ disc integrators and a gad-zillion little gears. Everything ran in tiny ball bearings. The only electrical signal came from the flux-gate compass. Beautiful. Betcha Tatjana could reproduce one. http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,792030,00.html Thanks so much, Bill!