Comments on: TCP/IP via bongo drums

TCP/IP via bongo drums

Meatbomb — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 08:53:42 -0800

By: DU

DU — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:06:45 -0800

I was going to remark that getting a "standard Windows PC" work right with OEM software was hard enough, let alone bongos but I see they went with a Linux bridge. Heh. Also, it seems like AudioIP might actually be useful underwater. Also also: This post is useless without audio.

By: cortex

cortex — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:11:56 -0800

Since we have high latency and bandwidth, it was found that the ARP requests were flooding the bongo link. <3 internet

By: Plutor

Plutor — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:12:20 -0800

Cf. RFC-1149: "A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers" and a real life implementation.

By: TheOnlyCoolTim

TheOnlyCoolTim — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:12:41 -0800

This is a use of bongos I can approve of. Usually I am slightly annoyed by the existence of drums that one plays with the hands, because hippies, usually to my experience chill and considerate people, have this huge blind spot where many of them think that sort of drumming is universally appropriate and beloved by all.

By: euphorb

euphorb — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:18:22 -0800

That's a picture of a conga drum on the front page.

By: yhbc

yhbc — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:21:53 -0800

From the bottom of the front page: *Yes I know that isn't a bongo drum at the top bongo pwned!

By: sdodd

sdodd — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:25:20 -0800

C'mon, cortex, there's no ARP on the Internet. That's a LAN-only thing. You meant "<3 Ethernet." There are some super-nerdy jokes ("trumpet winsock," etc.) in the Slashdot comments when this was first posted in 2003. What's killing me is that I distinctly remember watching video of them demonstrating this to their class, but now I can't find it. A single ping took a looong time. Here's the audio sample from the website (warning: direct link to WAV file).

By: flapjax at midnite

flapjax at midnite — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:26:04 -0800

This guy gonna make your computer asplode.

By: a robot made out of meat

a robot made out of meat — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:29:11 -0800

Also, it seems like AudioIP might actually be useful underwater. Audio pulses are in fact used by remote controlled scientific subs in the arctic where cables would likely be cut by ice. I think that the navy uses bouys to do something similar so that subs can get information in real time without surfacing.

By: DU

DU — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:31:55 -0800

But are the audio pulses TCP/IP? On second thought, you probably DON'T want to transparently present a TCP/IP interface to devices underwater. Some idiot program will think itself above the surface and try to fetch an image or something...

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:40:52 -0800

Interesting, but they lose marks by not creating the concomitant RFC.

By: Blazecock Pileon

Blazecock Pileon — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 09:52:00 -0800

Interesting, but they lose marks by not creating the concomitant RFC. Request for congas?

By: nebulawindphone

nebulawindphone — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 10:01:11 -0800

A Request For Cowbell is more traditional, I think.

By: invitapriore

invitapriore — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:06:18 -0800

This is pretty cool! It reminds me a lot of a more practical project, which was TCP/IP via infrared light shone over small distances, to eliminate the need for wiring over distances that are reasonably short but still infeasible to send CAT-5 over. Usually I am slightly annoyed by the existence of drums that one plays with the hands, because hippies, usually to my experience chill and considerate people, have this huge blind spot where many of them think that sort of drumming is universally appropriate and beloved by all. If it makes you feel any better, actual hand percussionists are annoyed by hippie drum players too, because their drum playing is roughly analogous to gracelessly strumming a guitar with all the strings open. Give bongos a chance!

By: kiltedtaco

kiltedtaco — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:35:51 -0800

This is how Richard Feynman would have invented the internet.

By: Sys Rq

Sys Rq — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 13:41:03 -0800

This post is useless without audio. There is audio on the page labeled "Pictures"

By: vsync

vsync — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 16:53:37 -0800

Neat stuff. But from the linked page, the lower layers of the OSI model. OSI, really? Is anyone still pretending that matters?

By: grouse

grouse — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 23:52:07 -0800

The OSI model is usually brought up in any introductory networking text. Using the model is not the same thing as using their protocols (some of which are still in use as well).

By: BrotherCaine

BrotherCaine — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 00:09:38 -0800

Next up: using silbo to query google up to a mile away from your PC.