Adding Halikey Suport to CW Simon

The 11 year-old and I played CW Simon through two airports and plane rides last night. We got a little better at sending CW, and bothered absolutely no one. Haptics rock!

But what if you'd rather practice Morse with your own set of paddles, not on a smart phone touch screen? By the way, did I mention that the smart phone easily supports 20 wpm iambic keying? Still want your own paddles? Ok, ok, ok, ok.

We're working on adding Halikey support! We've got a code basis to work from becuase there are other apps in the Project TouCans portfolio, namely the CW Fist-ogram—a tool for practicing your dit/dah timing consistency—and the inter-person, internet CW transciever. that already support Halikey. Both those tools were built for the OG serial Halikey. I was worried that device was going away and therefore was delighted this morning when I saw that the serial version will continue to be sold along with the spiffy new MIDI version of the Halikey!

I perused the new User's Guide and found this

and yes, that is exactly how the existing Project TouCans apps work.

We'll be building MIDI support in using WebMIDI. I found a this tutorial and this tutorial this morning. They look promiing.

Due to the need for human in the loop testing, we'll probably go back to chat coding for this portion of CW Simon while we get it up and running. More on that later.

I continued to be super-impressed with mdn.

KO6BTY and I will be working with webSockets and mDSN to add a key to phone option soon. But anyway.

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