When mom says we have data transmission at home

Fiberless optic

" 'borrowed' from work" yeah i believe you bro

Also good representation of serial vs parallel transmission

Bro made real life red stone repeaters

this rotary transfer method reminds me of star wars, the way r2d2 connects to interfaces

The fun bit is it is highly likely there is at least one use case for each of them being the ideal solution to a very very specific problem.

My dad works at a bank with heavy firewall and i once built a program that spent an hour using his webcam to receive over 1000 sequential QR codes to rebuild a file😂

I like that the solenoids hitting the switches are powered by mechanical relays, which themselves are basically solenoids that hit switches in a much more compact package

Behold! The Motive Force carries the sacred binary through blessed steel. The machine spirit knows not the crude indignity of electrons alone.

Where’s the sign up for solenoid internet?😂

All these, are still faster, than my pc😢

The most cursed data transmission that's actually in use has to be, not joking, mud pulsing. When drilling for oil, the bit is loaded up with sensors to collect data about the rock. Getting the data to the surface is not easy, because the drill is a bunch of daisy chained steel tubes vibrating like crazy under huge stresses. You can't just run an Ethernet cable down there. But... there is drilling mud being pumped through the center of the drill bit. So what they do is use a mechanical sphincter to repeatedly constrict the flow of drilling mud, which creates pressure pulses that can be read at the surface. It's incredibly slow, but the information is valuable enough that it's worth waiting for.

The flashing light is how the Canon Hack Pack program exists at all: people are "downloading" the camera firmware through the led indicator

I need that last one so I can hear it spin up when mom completes the pizza roll cooking

This gives of "square wheel" vibes

The solenoid knows where it is at all times because it knows where it isn't ...

Second method is incredible secure for copying hard-encoded data. Format wouldn't be popular but very sturdy.

Funny to think that all of these would have been revolutionary like, 60 years ago lolll

I love how they’re so ridiculous they’re awesome 😂

"... And over here we're uploading the entire collection of Game Of Thrones via Messenger Raven... But not like you think. See each raven memorizes a single word and gets a treat for saying the word when prompted. We lined up all the ravens for each episode on rotating platforms in front of microphones. As the script of the episode plays out each raven is rotated to the microphone and prompted for their word. Together they are able to produce one episode a week... Super efficient."