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Something I've Wanted to Do
Jun. 5th, 2009 11:45 pm. . . but have had no tech chops to execute. It's here!
I got the idea from a toy we had 20+ years ago in (IIRC) 1981. It was a simple wand with a keyboard. Enter the message, wave the wand, communicate over distance. I tried to hook it to my bike wheel, but refused to crack the case and destroy the toy (we weren't very affluent; wasting a cool toy was frowned upon by all). Had I done it, and found a way to trigger the next spurt of data other than the roller ball clicking on either side of the wave, that simple message maker would have been on the wheels.
Ah, well.
I got the idea from a toy we had 20+ years ago in (IIRC) 1981. It was a simple wand with a keyboard. Enter the message, wave the wand, communicate over distance. I tried to hook it to my bike wheel, but refused to crack the case and destroy the toy (we weren't very affluent; wasting a cool toy was frowned upon by all). Had I done it, and found a way to trigger the next spurt of data other than the roller ball clicking on either side of the wave, that simple message maker would have been on the wheels.
Ah, well.