Wireless TOSLINK audio. Holy crap, I ran out of desk and it still works. Using two shitty plastic lenses from IKEA lamps. 96kHz 24bit uncompressed. Take that, Bluetooth!pic.twitter.com/Rus4rLaTt8
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New record: 140cm. I don't think I can go any further with this setup. The alignment is extremely finicky at this point, and any added loss makes it drop out.pic.twitter.com/AKUEbxKUzN
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To give an idea of the margin: at 135cm it sounds perfect, at 140cm I get the occasional dropout, and at 145cm it's unusable.
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Brings to mind an experimental cheap optical link I made in my 1960s teen years. Tx was a torch (had to be “on” for dc bias) with an audio amp (>2W) ac coupled across bulb. Rx was OC71, with paint scraped off, feeding amp/speaker. Worked across room, but how things have moved on!
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Speaking of across the room... https://twitter.com/marcan42/status/1010511381622185984 … I have no idea how this worked, but it did.
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Hector Martin @marcan42I took a $0.65 red laser module and soldered it across the S/PDIF output. No driver. Nothing. It works. There is so much wrong with this I don't even know where to start. This isn't supposed to work! 6MHz on a $0.65 laser pointer?! Thank you China for not adding decoupling caps. pic.twitter.com/oIn9CkQuSUShow this thread2 replies 0 retweets 1 like -
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There is actually a resistor on board the laser (it's meant for 3V 40mA). It's quite underdriven anyway, probably due to the wimpy drive strength of the S/PDIF encoder IC. It definitely won't pump out 40mA so I could probably get away with shorting the resistor.
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Keep in mind the original TOSLINK transmitter has a built-in monolithic driver. This is connected *before* that, to a logic-level S/PDIF signal.
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