Dougal Campbell's geek ramblings

A quick update while I have a break between phases of a programming project at work….

The Bongo Project is at least as cool as the Carrier Pigeon Internet Protocol implementation (an implentation of RFC1149, “A Standard for the Transmission of IP Datagrams on Avian Carriers”). A student took up a professor’s challenge to implement the physical layer of the OSI model with bongo drums using a couple of linux boxes with microphones listening for the primitive ping packets…