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Send Morse Code Over Stockholm By Laser

Posted by timothy on from the di-di-da-di-da-di-da-di-da-da-di dept.

bigmac writes "KTH, Royal Institute of technology is celebrating 175 year anniv by making a very spectacular laser show. A green laser sent from the bottom of an old reactor building 30 meters below ground. The beam is then reflected over the city from the schools clock tower. And yes, you can send your own laser-morse messages through their homepage!" Here's an image to chew on.

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  1. Reminds me of "blinkenlights"... by evbergen · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ... that was up on slashdot a while ago. It allowed you to send messages that scrolled by on a 18x8 screen made of lamps in office rooms and play Pong on your GSM (see http://www.blinkenlights.de/).

    It's not even that original, considering the fact that (at least here in NL) a lot of clip stations are continuously scrolling by SMS messages from random people. Everyone his 5 seconds of fame. Hmm.

    The laser would be a fun way to ask a geeky other half to marry though.

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  2. My message would be ... by Skapare · · Score: 4, Interesting

    My message would be the source code to DeCSS, compressed, and alpha-encoded.

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