[Watford] IP over .... ?

[Peter Grant]

Do you think you could remove the human element using a stepper motor
to control the flag and a kinect sensor to remotely read it's
position?
Peter

"When you have a Swiss Army knife of a mind, everything looks like it
should be dismantled." Danny O'Brien/Merlin Mann


On 13 May 2012 16:37, Alain Williams <addw at phcomp.co.uk> wrote:
> I read:
>
>    http://entertainment.slashdot.org/story/12/05/13/1512255/researcher-runs-ip-network-over-xylophones
>
> someone has done IP over xylophones, following after IP using avian carriers.
>
> How about getting together & implementing IP over something else, eg:
>
> * semaphore (flags) We should be able to encode more than 1 bit per flag:
>  up        00
>  up/left   01
>  left      10
>  down/left 11
>  down      no data
>
>  In theory with 2 hands & flags you could transmit 4 bits at a time, but I suspect that
>  that would be too confusing - for me at least.
>
> * aldis lamp
>
> What else ? I do like semaphore - should not be too hard.
>
> Want to give it a go one w/end ?
>
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