Successful integration of blinkenlights and noisemakers:
Oh, and happy tofurkey day!
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Twitter- @jbroome throw in enough to diagnose a TCP Window Scaling problem and we could have our very own industry certification program or somesuch.
- If the only thing I had learned from my Network Protocols class had been "Start at the physical layer," the tuition would have been worth it
- Possible greenway/bike path linking Carolina North & Main Campus: http://pebkac.homelinux.net/2009/11/17/bike-walk-way-carolina-north/
- Either I fail at LCSH this morning or "Software Patent Institute" is the closest subject heading to "Software Patent" or "Patents--Software"
- @mantruc congrats on the new baby boy!
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Very cool!
But, how about back at you with something where the blinkenlights ARE the noisemakers.
@Tanner
OMG that’s awesome.
…but… does it run Linux?
It doesn’t run anything. It’s completely solid state. The input can be anything that generates sine waves. They use a “zero detector” that converts when a wave transitions from positive to negative and use that to generate a pulse of light that is sent through fiber optics to the coil and used to turn the coil on and off. It’s an INCREDIBLY COOL hack because it can reproduce any kind of sound just by turning the coil on and off at that frequency. This video shows them using both a keyboard and an electric bass as input to an earlier version of the coil.
I REALLY want to build one of these now!