Giving friends custom text buzzes based on Morse code
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Your idea sounds cool, but then I’d have to learn Morse code which doesn’t sound fun to me
Your phrasing reminded me of what casual mentions of a same-sex partners used to elicit, when heteronormativity was more prevalent.
How relevant. Sounds oddly like a “gotcha” of sorts; still, I can’t help but wonder how happily married you really are considering you felt the need to bring it up entirely unprompted in an otherwise entirely unrelated note.
very happily married here too
I'd highly recommend even if your goal is just to have fun, and not to "learn morse code".
Great for your kids, and your other kids too!
I publish CBC and BBC News Feeds in Morse Code in various speeds if you're looking for another way to learn Morse Code.
I still remember a specific subset of Morse code that includes my then-girlfriend's initials because of it.
No longer available on the store because of Google Play's endless developer demands, but here's the proof: https://web.archive.org/web/20150811222142/http://norse.cryo...
So anyway, if you want to do something like that, it's back to android I'm afraid. Don't worry, there's no patent and there's prior art (i.e. my usage). FWIW - the closest patent to it was made by a TV manufacturer that would allow you to find the remote control by playing a noise etc directed by the TV !
connecting people
As a kid, I thought "SOS" officially stood for "save our souls", later learning that this was only a mnemonic. It was only in adulthood that I learned "SOS" itself was a mnemonic, since:
"SOS" (literal) = ... / --- / ...
S̅O̅S̅ (distress code) = ...---...
Where "/" is a longer gap. S̅O̅S̅ is a "prosign", and thus a symbol in its own right. From Wikipedia [1]:
> Although the well-known calling prosign for emergency messages SOS is always represented by the three letters "SOS", it could just as well be written VZE ( ...- + --.. + . ), VGI ( ...- + --. + .. ), or even 3B ( ...-- + -... ); all of these render the same single code ...---...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosigns_for_Morse_code#Notati...
(Which is actually similar to how a lot of compression schemes work)
iOS supports having notification sounds synchronized with the haptics; I wonder if generating the text tones as audio files and assigning those would have been an easier approach.
Just have to use the share sheet on an audio file and choose "Use as ringtone". Shortcuts/Automator might even be able to make this automagic.
But would be cool with a separate buzzer of sorts where you get the normal buzzer notification and then hold a finger somewhere specific and get details that way.