Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set (Engadget)
How can we appreciate bullet-quick SSDs and fiber networks without pausing –
at the year’s end — to appreciate where it all came from? We should think
back to before the birth of modern computing, even before the telegraph, to a
time when bits of data were forced to travel everywhere by train. A hacker
named Maximilien has now recreated that locomotive golden era using Lego,
Arduino and Linux, and what his system lacks in bandwidth it more than makes
up for in historical relevance. A USB flash key is borne by miniature railway
carriage from station to station, stopping at each one to unload or pickup
information and thus creating its own barebones networking protocol. Click the
source link to appreciate the full museum piece.
Hacker builds allegedly pointless data network out of Lego train set
originally appeared on Engadget on Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:19:00 EDT. Please see
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