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1. SaberTail · 1790178174 · focus · HN ↗

   > The "Status" LED flashes some kind of code - long long, short short short. I assumed the number of flashes would correspond to the time but apparently not. We didn't have time to figure this out before we had to leave.

   long-long-short-short-short is 7 in morse code. They don't say what time they tried this or if it ever changed, though, so that's just a hypothesis.

   1. MacNCheese23 · 1790190656 · focus · HN ↗

      As an engineer i would never think that complicated - morse code?

      Couldn't it be just binary

      long-long-short-short-short

      11000

      Which is - to everyones surprise - 24 as in hours.

      1. js2 · 1790209963 · focus · HN ↗

         I had that thought too when I saw the parent comment earlier, but then I looked up the Morse code digits and I have to admit that they are much easier to decode from a flashing light than binary and I'm pretty good doing binary in my head:

             ----- 0000
             .---- 0001
             ..--- 0010
             ...-- 0011
             ....- 0100
             ..... 0101
             -.... 0110
             --... 0111
             ---.. 1000
             ----. 1001
         

         Also, if I see a light with short and long blinks and a pause in between, I'm going to immediately think Morse, not binary, and decoding it is almost intuitive.

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