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1. October 12, 2015 at 4:20 pm

   Tomi Engdahl says:

   Serial Data from the Web to an Arduino
   http://hackaday.com/2015/10/10/serial-data-from-the-web-to-an-arduino/

   In the old days, a serial port often connected to an acoustic coupler that gripped a phone handset and allowed a remote connection to a far away serial port (via another phone and acoustic coupler) at a blistering 300 baud or less.

   In a decidedly retro move, [James Halliday] and [jerky] put a modern spin on that old idea. They used the webaudio API to send serial data to a remote Arduino. The hack uses a FET, a capacitor, and a few resistors. They didn’t quite build a real modem with the audio. Instead, they basically spoof the audio port into sending serial data and recover it with the external circuitry. They also only implement serial sending (so the Arduino receives) so far, although they mention the next step would be to build the other side of the connection.

   serial over webaudio
   http://substack.net/serial_over_webaudio

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