Not sure if it counts as novelty or not and its not purely software at all, but I've been learning about and experimenting with VLC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/

Not sure if it counts as novelty or not and its not purely software at all, but I've been learning about and experimenting with VLC (https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light_communication https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visible_light_communication) Hopefully when I have a semi useful prototype done I'll be able to write more about it. I'm particularly interested in the upcoming 802.11bb standard and it would be cool to design something that can take advantage of or at least build upon existing 802.11 stacks. This was a pretty easy to understand paper introducing VLC concepts https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8257800 https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8257800. Sadly it does cost money to read and unfortunately I'm not aware of any way to access ieee documents without paying. Although since it's a research paper and not a standard, you may be able to find it on sci-hub or something similar.