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• Normal_gaussian 1y ago
  That is really quite a cool project and write-up. (I used to administer a laser link. go on, ask me why they aren’t very popular) I spent a lot of time working out how to create low powered laser transducer, capable of working on something battery powered. This is my favourite part; very real. I think you're right; I suspect Terry would have been tickled by the header, but if there were any physical world implementations I think he would have been overjoyed. One of my favourite Terry stories is of him making his sword, which feels similar.
• kurisufag 1y ago
  for a while I thought I might go to one of those uniquely nerdy colleges where they let you fuck around with dorm infrastructure. i back-of-napkin'd a whole packet-over-laser relay system based conceptually on the clacks that'd give every room/station its own serial-interfacible (up|down) link. you could link buildings out of windows and stuff. horribly impractical and prohibitively expensive, but the kind of thing that could only happen in a university on-campus environment.