Collaborate Disseminate
[Brainiac75] is a fan of fiber optic lamps, except for one thing—they’re often remarkably dim. Thus, they set out to hack the technology to deliver terrifying amounts of light while …read more Continue reading Fiber Optic Lamp Modified To Be Scarily Bright
Before a spectrometer can do any useful work, it needs to be calibrated to identify wavelengths correctly. This is usually done by detecting several characteristic peaks or dips in a …read more Continue reading Building a Xenon Lamp for Spectroscopy
TOSLINK was developed in the early 1980s as a simple interface for sending digital audio over fiber optic cables, and despite its age, is still featured on plenty of modern …read more Continue reading Sending TOSLINK Wirelessly With Lasers
In his regular browsing on AliExpress, [Ben Jeffrey] came across something he didn’t understand—a $5 fiber optic to RF cable TV adapter. It was excessively cheap, and even more mysteriously, …read more Continue reading Tearing Down A Mysteriously Cheap $5 Fiber Optic To Cable TV Adapter
Spending time as wee hackers perusing the family atlas taught us an appreciation for a good map, and [Billy Roberts], a cartographer at NREL, has served up a doozy with …read more Continue reading NREL Maps Out US Data Infrastructure
If you’ve ever seen those cheap LED fiber optic wands at the dollar store, you’ve probably just thought of them as a simple novelty. However, as [Ancient] shows us, you …read more Continue reading Cheap Fiber Optic Wand Toy Becomes Tiny Weird Display
Good news, bad news for Sun watchers this week, as our star launched a solar flare even bigger than the one back in May that gave us an amazing display …read more Continue reading Hackaday Links: August 4, 2024
An international research team has sent an astounding amount of data at a nearly incomprehensible speed. It’s the fastest data transmission ever using a single optical fiber and shows just how speedy the process can get using current materials.Continue… Continue reading Blazing bits transmitted 4.5 million times faster than broadband
Everybody feels like they could use a faster internet connection, and now engineers in Japan have shattered the record for data transmission. The team managed to transmit more than 20 times the global internet traffic per second through a single optical fiber.
Category: Telecommunications, Technology
Tags: Data, Data Transfer, Transmission, World’s Fastest, Communications, Fiber Optic, Optics
Continue reading Record-breaking fiber transmits 20x global internet traffic per second
While it’s often important for doctors to monitor a patient’s physical activity throughout the day, placing cameras in that person’s home is a pretty obtrusive way of doing so. Scientists have now developed an alternative, in the form of activity-track… Continue reading Smart Pants use fiber optics to discreetly track wearers’ activity