Month: December 2015

  • Continued “data transmission whistle” experiment, more successful this time

    Okay, what’s this about? Oona Räisänen challenged her readers to construct a whistle that could transmit data using FSK. And if one reads her challenge carefully it says “whistle”. Not “pea whistle“. Now THAT simplifies things a lot! A whistle design like this can be modified by inserting a magnet and wrapping a coil around…

  • (Failed) Pea whistle experiment

    Well, not really failed, since every result is a result. I just found a way how this does not work. Two in fact. Okay, what’s this about? Oona Räisänen challenged her readers to construct a whistle that could transmit data using FSK. So, I thought about replacing the pea in a pea whistle with a…