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RC Submarine Lays Fiber Through Sewers In Italy
Francesco Fondi writes "An Italian Company is using RC scale model submarines to lay fiber through Milan's sewage system. The RC submarine used is the Neptune SB-1, produced by Taiwanese company Thunder Tiger. It costs ca $600 in US hobby shops." In Italian, but the pictures speak for themselves.
No Shit?
The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed (SK)
I always thought that would be a good way to construct a community driven "Guerilla Net", that flouted the laws that seek to control our communications systems.
The other idea was to build solar powered WiFi meshing routers and attach strong magnets to them. A radio controlled helicopter would then be used to attach them to inaccessible places on high metallic structures, where they would be very difficult to remove.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0CzgSAJ5v_8
Looooooooooooooonnggg
I'd go on a Vegan diet but the delivery time from Vega is too long. --brownkitty
How many of us cannot say the same? Esp. after all-you-can-eat night down at the Burrito King.
Monstar L
...get a shit connection. There, I said it.
A sewer submarine? That's a load of crap...
Of course, the other way to get more fibre in the system bran muffins.
This makes sense, I have been using RC 4wheel drive cars to run cable under craw spaces and in some cases, across long stretches of drop ceilings for a couple of years now. The great thing is that I can deduct toys from my taxes.
Even mutant turtles get better broadband than me.
geddit?
In soviet Italy, the crap is full of internet.
Some of my favourite people are from th US; Vonnegut, Chomsky, Bill Hicks.
If only the pictures would load, it seems to be slashdotted.
Google cache link: http://209.85.229.132/search?q=cache:phzPunjGi58J:www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato+http://www.hobbymedia.it/14893/sottomarino-radiocomandato&cd=1&hl=en&ct=clnk&gl=uk&client=firefox-a
Their pizzas are spherical.
Quick translation...
** Neptune, the radio-controlled submarine from Sabattinicars, lays ADSL cables in sewers
The July issue of Focus magazine contains an interesting piece on the use of Thunder TigerNeptune submarine (distributed in Italy by SabattiniCars) to lay ADSL cables through the sewage network. Cristoforo Massari, a physicist employed by the council of Milan, remarks that this system makes it possible to reach any building or house without any excavating effort, saving a lot of money. And to think that someone still argues that modelmaking is a useless hobby! [sic]
-- Let's go Viridian.
Please tag this story "it", so it's easier to find other stories about Italy later.
I want one. No, I want two. Not to lay cables through sewers, just to scare our local canoeists senseless, as a payback for all the times they've steered straight under my bow and scared the shit out of me.
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."
I'm sure there's going to be a lot of band jokes coming about "blocked tubes" and the like.
Instead of traffic congestion, we will have traffic constipation.
RC is not a toy! it is, like a eco friendly stuff. with some 14V LiPo+brushless engine they could lay even undersea cable at 50mph!
God's gift to chicks
Youtube Promo Video for Thunder-Tiger's Neptune -- shows the insides as well as some shots of it doing it's thing...
It's all fun and games until the cable breaks and someone has to swim in there and fix it.
Let's hope it doesn't meet one of these
didn't stand a chance against a slashdotting...
A guy I worked with (same company, different market) used to use an RC car to run pull string to run cat5, fiber, coax, whatever. Its not all that uncommon. Some of you might be surprised to know that they sell a cross bow with a fishing reel for running cable also.
What surprises me is that the sub can negotiate the sewer with all that shit in there. You would think the prop would have issues.
How do they keep the fiber from rotting? Sewers contain all sorts of household chemicals, in addition to biological waste.
This recalls Google's Toilet ISP April Fool's prank. But there was actually a broadband-via-sewer called CityNet, which raised $375 million back in 2001. It also used robots to run the cabling. This story recaps that initiative, and can serve as topical reading while TFA is Slashdotted.
RichM
Data Center Knowledge
The ferret pulled string through the pipes and that was used to pull rope which then was used to pull the cables through. I have heard that the same trick was used in the 1800's for telegraph cables.
Yes. Sea water is a lot more conductive than fresh water, so it blocks radio (except VLF...) more efficiently. Fresh water - well, put it like this, does your cell phone work when it's raining?
From scarped cliff or quarried stone she cries "A thousand types are gone, I care for nothing, no not one."