Lorenz Machine

The National Museum of Computing has one of the few remaining Lorenz machines, but no piece of hardware to demonstrate how the key-generation wheels work. We made a proof-of-concept piece of hardware that uses LEDs to simulate the wheels, and could potentially be upgraded to allow the user to encode their own messages.

The machine uses the Arduino Mega 2560 to handle encryption and the wheels, and the firmware is written in Rust.

A Particle Photon 2 is used to send input to the machine. In the future, this could be used to send messages from the internet.

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