Portable Morse Recorder (!)

[and...@intertrader.com]

This is a copy of a post I sent to comp.sys.wearables, but which hasn't
produced any response there. Could anyone on these groups offer advice?
(Even the relevant newsgroup would be a help!).

Hi,

Forgive me if this sounds stupid or too old-fashioned.

I spend ~100 minutes every day walking to and from work and would
often like to be able to record some of the things I am thinking
(like writing a letter to a friend - I can think what I will say,
but then forget before I can write it down).

I don't want to look unusual and I don't want to walk into lamposts
or get hit by cars, so it seemed to me that rather than reading
something I should listen to it. I'd like to be able to type on
something in a coat pocket, so it would have to be small and one-
handed. I've seen a microwriter (do they still exist?), but that's
large and complicated.

In the end I decided that something that records and plays back morse
code would be sufficient. I have various ideas for the software (editing)
and have built some hardware before (a long time ago - a Z80 based
stepper motor driver). But I have no idea what is possible with current
hardware (would I still need to blow my own EPROMS for example). Is
there some low-power consumption chip that includes a CPU, memory, and
some IO ports that can be programmed easily from a computer running
Linux?

Any comments welcome,
Cheers,
Andrew

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[Stana]

Hi Andrew,
I don't know of any device that can function as you described, but I have
some ideas that might be helpful to you. I would use a mini cassette
recorder to record my messages onto a tape, then use a voice recognition
software to transform the voice messages into written messages. How does it
sound?

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