Some people who live near train tracks don’t need an alarm. The loudly elongated wooo that reverberates through their windows every morning gets the job done. Intrigued by the meaning behind the ...

The first message sent by Morse code’s dots and dashes across a long distance traveled from Washington, D.C., to Baltimore on Friday, May 24, 1844 — 175 years ago. It signaled the first time ...

When the bot is powered on and senses a loud enough sound, the eyes light, the head spins from side to side, and the robot spouts off a random message in Morse code as you can see in the video below.

Other Morse decoders use lookup tables to convert sound to text, but it’s important to note that this one doesn’t.

Column 8 thought Morse Code would be a one-and-done subject, but no. A lesson to never underestimate our readers and their delight in arcane knowledge. Andrew Mowat of Beecroft says, “Graham ...