Generate AM Radio Broadcasts With Your Monitor

tessellation writes: "Tempest for Eliza is a program that uses your computer monitor to send out AM radio signals. You can then hear computer generated music in your radio." Here is your big chance to disrupt free thinking radio programs in your neighborhood.

weird, its not working

[ddent]

I wonder if it has something to do with how thin my monitor is... now wait a second, does this work on LCDs? :) Oh, maybe thats why...

stream mp3s?

[stonecoldt]

.ogg files would sound so much better out of that AM radio. :-P

Eliza?

[the Atomic Rabbit]

Huh? Does the program use your monitor to produce a radio program about psychotherapy? How do you describe your problems to it?

kernel?

[ameoba]

Considering that the 2.5 kernel development cycle hasn't begun yet, is there still time to get the Monitro Sound device driver put in?

Next thing ya know...

[WyldOne]

Someone will use an optical mouse as a laser radar jammer.

subliminal messages

[elizard2k]

This is your chance to send out the many subliminal messages to the poor listeners at your work/neighborhood. *snicker*

*crackle* this program has been interrupted by your next door geek .. buy him computer parts *crackle*

for the lazy

[swagr]

Put an AM tuner near your box, and you'll easily find a frequency (many in fact) that let you hear your PC.

Type some keys... move your mouse, open a window...

Not only are you broadcasting... you're composing...

A better way to tell the eavesdropping feds...

[i22y]

"All your base are belong to us!"

Re:Weird.

[Andux]

it could be your own personal radio station

Great. We could piss off the RIAA and the FCC, all at once.

Seriously, though, I doubt you could get a strong enough signal out of it for a decent broadcast (and if you can, you're probably glowing in the dark already). You'd be better off just bolting a big chunk of metal to the roof and doing things the old-fashioned way.

Re:This isn't the first

[Tails]

You beat me to it. I submitted the similar article back in '99 and felt a strange sense of deja-vu reading the slashdot headline. Common slashdot, lets try to keep it fresh!

The Fabulous Altair Connection

[foqn1bo]

I recall hearing something once about the homebrew computer club @ Cal back in the 70's doing something like this using an Altair and a radio to play The Beatles' classic, "Fool on the Hill". It was judged the most interesting and useful thing anyone had managed to do with an Altair yet. I am glad that over 20 years later programmers are dedicated to making our computers just as useful and practical.

All your funny are belong to six months ago!

[ebbomega]

Someone set up us the dead horse!

what about a beowulf?

[Barbarian]

Seriously, though, I doubt you could get a strong enough signal out of it for a decent broadcast (and if you can, you're probably glowing in the dark already). You'd be better off just bolting a big chunk of metal to the roof and doing things the old-fashioned way.

Imagine a beowulf of these, though...

Re:Eliza?

[x136]

]Hello Eliza.
Hello.
]I don't feel very good.
Why is it that you don't feel very good?
]Well, my monitor is talking to my radio.
Are you concerned about your monitor talking to your radio?
]Well, yes. It's not supposed to work that way.
Why isn't it supposed to work that way?
]Shut up Eliza.
Why do you want me to shut up?
]Because you are a stupid worthless computer program.
I sense much anger in you. Perhaps you should seek medical help.
]Oh, what do you know?
What is it about what I know that interests you?
]ARRRRRRGGGHHH!!!
I don't understand what you mean by ARRRRRRGGGHHH!!!. Please try again.
]quit
OK. Goodbye.
]

Great! Thanks!

[perlprog]

Now, soon, we will not be able to use our laptops in flight. Woo!

Um you guys will probably kill me for this ...

[jstockdale]

... but will someone port this thing to Windows so the less 31337 :P members of /. can have a play with it.

Not that I don't run linux ... but ... um ... oh just think of the children and port the damn thing ;)

*cough* xp *cough*

Re:harumph. Another Johnny-Come-Lately

[dattaway]

This was done on IBM's and others at least in the 60's, and possibly the late 50's.

This still won't stop some talented individual who is handy with patent applications from filing today. Be warned...

And If I Bite Into My Monitor Cable...

[Anonymous Coward]

...I can "hear" the music in my fillings!