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Musicbox by Jin-Yo Mok (2004)The music box is connected to a composition program over the internet using a serial-to-Ethernet module. The composition program changes the lights on the music box and the sounds it will play. Real-time communication between the two gives the player feedback. Photo courtesy of Jin-Yo Mok.

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Communicating in (Near) Real Time

So far, most of the networked communications you’ve seen worked through a web browser. Your device made a request to a remote server, the server ran a program, and then it sent ...

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