A friend and I once entered a competition to see who could transmit a text message first between two computers using DAQ boards. The judges walked around the r

A friend and I once entered a competition to see who could transmit a text message first between two computers using DAQ boards. The judges walked around the room giving every team two wires. By the time they got to us they had run out, so we had to use paperclips. Our implementation did single-bit handshaking. Most of the other teams were trying to use a clock-based solution. Or throughout was super slow, but because our solution was stupid-simple we got it working first and won!