{"id":502,"date":"2022-05-27T18:25:20","date_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:25:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/?p=502"},"modified":"2022-05-27T18:25:20","modified_gmt":"2022-05-27T18:25:20","slug":"enigma-machine-version-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/enigma-machine-version-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Enigma Machine &#8211; Version 2"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>After finishing my wooden Enigma stepping mechanism in 2020, I started working on building a fully functioning electro-mechanical system with hand-turned rotors, interoperable with original Enigma machines.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After nearly two years, I&#8217;ve finally finished! I&#8217;m going to do a longer post going into more detail on the construction, but first I wanted to share some photos. Some people have asked for a copy of the plans used to cut out the parts on the laser cutter, so I&#8217;m sharing them here.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I have a twitter thread logging the work-in-progress here:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Work-in-progress on the lockdown project I started last year: another Enigma-like cypher machine. Unlike the last one (<a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/giHTrLuCKm\">https:\/\/t.co\/giHTrLuCKm<\/a>), this will be a fully functioning electro-mechanical system with hand-turned rotors, interoperable with original Enigma machines. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QKTgYNyAax\">pic.twitter.com\/QKTgYNyAax<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuben Binns @RDBinns@someone.elses.computer (@RDBinns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RDBinns\/status\/1386248201079074823?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">April 25, 2021<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>And another about the finished machine:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Version 2 of my Enigma-like cypher machine is finally finished. Main changes from last version are a simplified keyboard and lampboard, no plugboard, integrated entry wheel and battery, on\/off switch, more responsive keys. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/JlHGOf5lPU\">pic.twitter.com\/JlHGOf5lPU<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuben Binns @RDBinns@someone.elses.computer (@RDBinns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RDBinns\/status\/1525885586586087424?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>A video of the latest version in action:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Example encrypting plaintext &#39;HELLO&#39; into cyphertext &#39;JMAEK&#39; <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/c4HIexzA1v\">pic.twitter.com\/c4HIexzA1v<\/a><\/p>&mdash; Reuben Binns @RDBinns@someone.elses.computer (@RDBinns) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RDBinns\/status\/1525886481973268481?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 15, 2022<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>The plans are available as a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/R_Binns_minigma_RGB_27_05_2022_lamp_letters.pdf\">PDF<\/a> file (EPS also available on request). They are licensed under <a href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC-BY<\/a>. They are designed to be laser cut into 3mm MDF.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After finishing my wooden Enigma stepping mechanism in 2020, I started working on building a fully functioning electro-mechanical system with hand-turned rotors, interoperable with original Enigma machines. After nearly two years, I&#8217;ve finally finished! I&#8217;m going to do a longer post going into more detail on the construction, but first I wanted to share some &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/enigma-machine-version-2\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Enigma Machine &#8211; Version 2<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-502","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=502"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":505,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/502\/revisions\/505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=502"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=502"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.reubenbinns.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=502"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}