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It's both. Obviously, it's a silly April-but-not-in-April fools joke; but it also seems that it would work (but not be practical).

The spaghetti is just a stick. At one end a relay[1] wiggles the strand of spaghetti to transmit information. At the other end an optical sensor[2] sees the tip of the strand of spaghetti wiggling and receives that information. There's such a setup going in each direction[3] so that each side can receive and transmit.

[1]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/... (the strand of spaghetti that stick going off the screen to the right)

[2]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/...

[3]: https://github.com/peterheinrich/InternetOverSpaghetti/blob/...



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