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A fun weekend project: https://www.modembin.comIt's a pastebin, except text/files are encoded into .wav files using real FSK modem audio. Image sharing is supported via Slow-Scan Television (SSTV), a method of transmitting images as FM audio originally used by ham radio operators.Everything runs in the browser with zero audio libraries and the encoding is vanilla TypeScript sine wave math: phase-continuous FSK with proper 8-N-1 framing, fractional bit accumulation for non-integer sample rates, and a quadrature FM discriminator on the decode side (no FFT windowing or Goertzel), The only dependency is lz-string for URL sharing compression.It supports Bell 103 (300 baud), Bell 202 (1200 baud), V.21, RTTY/Baudot, Caller ID (Bellcore MDMF), DTMF, Blue Box MF tones, and SSTV image encoding. There's also a chat mode where messages are transmitted as actual Bell 103 audio over WebSocket... or use the acoustic mode for speaker-to-mic coupling for in-room local chat.

Comments (3)

Wyatt Romaguera Wyatt Romaguera 4 months ago

solution looking for a problem

Jeremie DuBuque Jeremie DuBuque 4 months ago

slow-scan tv for images is unhinged, running actual bell 103 frequencies or something custom

Nikko Olson Nikko Olson 4 months ago

encoding text into real modem audio is awesome