Sunday, January 18, 2009

In Development: Morse Code Messages

As you guys may or may not know, I am really interested in how things work and all types of computer technology. I thought that making a post about what I am going to try to do in the future would be interesting and if you guys want to try to do what I am doing as well, that would be so cool.

The first thing that I have talked with many people about and what I have researched about for a while is the theory of extremely fast morse code transmissions with computers. The benefit of these types of things it that you could send messages to each other directly by light or sound and you wouldn't have to even know morse code to do it. The first way that this could be done would be with the mosquito noise, but at a kilohertz so high that no one could hear it. The only doubts I have about this concept is if the computers have a limit at what sounds they can hear and if you would be able to choose a channel of a certain hertz so that other people couldn't hear what you were saying.

The other way that this could be done would be with lasers or another direct light source that computers could tranmit messages with. For example, I'm sure that many of you were curious as a two or three year old and wondered what was happening when the light on the garage door went off when you moved in between the beams that stops it from closing on you. My idea works on the same principle, that the sender of the message could turn the light on and off in a morse code or other coded pattern that the other computer would understand and then translate back into words for the reciever of the message.

So thats kind of just the main principle of the idea, but the excecution might be a bit more complicated. On the bright side, its a lot less complicated than a few of my other ideas. In my next post, you'll see what I mean by a lot more complicated when I write about making a HERF gun. The concept is somewhat dangerous, but still very cool.

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