Chapter 1022 Improved Terminal, Wireless Networking!

Back in the office in the dungeon, Su Mo quickly thought of the theme of the New Year event.

The Chinese "get rid of the old and welcome the new" is not very suitable in the wasteland.

First, it is so extravagant to throw away old things. Many people wear out the sneakers they brought from Earth, but they are reluctant to throw them away and have to maintain them every day.

Second, the life of the residents in the territory is not rich now, and it is the beautiful vision that everyone expects to buy some new parts on the basis of it.

Therefore, it is the best choice to hold an event that everyone can participate in and give some practical rewards.

But before he can decide on the specific event plan.

Just then, footsteps and the inquiries and conversations of the guards suddenly came from outside the office.

Knocking on the door, it turned out to be Ai Jianfeng, who had not met formally for a long time.

Since the territory's major infrastructure construction began, his scientific research projects have exploded, and more than 99% of the mechanical manufacturing must be supervised by Ai Jianfeng, the master of mechanics.

Including the industrial mother bed that was upgraded later, it also became his main research object.

Last time, I heard from Lu Kuan that Ai Jianfeng had disassembled all the parts of the mother bed except the core part, and suddenly realized several research directions that were previously blocked.

When I saw him again, Ai Jianfeng was carrying a 20-inch suitcase in his hand, which obviously showed that his recent research had made a breakthrough.

"Lord, using the decomposition and recycling device you gave us, we finally gathered enough materials to make the adventurer terminal and made the first mass-produced version of the terminal!"

Putting the box on the solid wood desk in front of Su Mo, Ai Jianfeng excitedly opened the box buckle and spread it out.

Lying inside, wrapped up, was an object that was very similar to the terminal in Su Mo's hand.

However, compared with that thick and mobile phone-like thing, this terminal is obviously thinner.

By comparison, it is about the same size as the air conditioner remote control.

"Is this the finished product?"

Su Mo tried to pick up the terminal and weigh it.

Sure enough, not only was the size much smaller, but the weight was less than one-fifth of the original.

If you remove the outer layer of the steel-plastic ring that protects the inner display, this thing may only weigh as much as an Apple PM model, about half a pound.

"Isn't it amazing? During the manufacturing preparation process, I have tried to enter the bottom layer of that big thing more than once, but I was blocked by a series of weird circuit designs. Just when the materials were gathered and I thought no one could change the bottom layer, guess what happened?"

"I guarantee that the person who made this thing is definitely a genius, and a genius among geniuses! Sorry, this thing has brought me too many shocks. Although we always say that the ultimate goal of machinery is to be highly integrated so that a fool can use it, it is still too incredible to see it happen in front of me."

Ai Jianfeng's excitement is just like those "newbies" who have just joined the research team.

Not only is he not graceful, he is even shouting loudly.

"We can change its internal parts requirements and function generation at will. For example, if we only want to make a terminal that can display text, we only need to set it up at the bottom layer, and we can get a terminal with corresponding functions in a fool-proof way, and the materials will be about 80% simpler than the complete body.

This is not the most perverted thing. We can also strengthen a certain function of the terminal. I really can't imagine that this thing can be "overclocked". For example, the antenna inside this device can still maintain a 20-kilometer receiving and sending range under the interference of fog, and the delay is very small."

"By the way, we can also customize functions. Damn, I don't know how to say how powerful this thing is!"

Looking at the master in front of him who can almost be said to be at the top of the mechanical field, he was so out of control.

Su Mo tried to understand the core point of Ai Jianfeng's words.

According to his meaning, the functions in the terminal are not mixed on a circuit board, but are assembled in a similar way to a computer host.

Regarding each function as a different component, the manufacturer can decide whether to add the component at will.

For example, if you only need a computer for work, you can directly install a low-end processor with integrated graphics, connect a small-capacity mechanical hard drive, and match it with a monitor to meet your needs.

If you want to play large-scale games, you can use a high-end processor, independent graphics card, and solid-state hard drive to meet your needs.

However, it is such a simple truth that the difficulty suddenly increases hundreds of times when it comes to integrated automation.

If you want to build such a complex logic program into a production machine, I am afraid that only modular devices with explosive technological content can do it.

"So, after removing some core functions and retaining basic functions, we can already mass produce?"

"You really guessed it."

Ai Jianfeng sighed slightly, showing an expression of "you still understand me".

Sure enough, it is still too difficult for geniuses to hide something.

An adventurer device with custom functions has indeed not made him as excited as he is now.

Mass production, large-scale mass production and retaining basic functions.

This is a leap forward!

“I have always felt that many functions in the Adventurer Terminal are outrageous, such as the function similar to the storage space. It is simply unreasonable. If we regard this function as standard for every device, the materials required will be unreasonable. As you can imagine, just those weird elements would have taken us several years to put together.”

"But on the contrary, if we abandon all these weird and powerful functions, we can even be self-sufficient in all the materials required to manufacture a terminal except Au!"

Au is the symbol of the gold element. As a material with high stability, high electrical and thermal conductivity, its application in high-precision equipment is nothing new.

As if he was afraid that Sumo would think that this device had castrated most of its functions, Ai Jianfeng opened the terminal after finishing speaking and began to operate and explain at the same time.

“First of all, I retained the most important monitoring function in the adventurer device. The built-in module can record the wearer’s body information feedback in real time, such as heart rate, calorie consumption, daily walking distance, sleep quality, water intake analysis, and sugar intake. Input analysis, stress index and other diversified information, and combine it to give an improvement suggestion.”

“Secondly, Su Wei squeezed the computing power in his spare time for development and designed a total of three small programs for different purposes. They are:

For work (task), the terminal periodically fetches information from the server and feeds it back into the interface. The wearer clicks on the relevant information to read and then confirms the access remotely. There is no need to queue up at the General Office of Work, and they can also record and upload themselves in real time. progress.

Wallet, as inflation causes prices to rise, using physical currency has become more and more troublesome. Coordinating everyone's currency into the terminal can not only save a batch of materials for manufacturing devices, but also facilitate later management.

Instant messaging is an internal self-guided communication software. The wearer can enter the corresponding group for text chat, and the administrator can publish announcements. In the future, when the server is upgraded, it will also generate diversified needs such as voice and video. "

"Finally, we retained the most important map collection function in the terminal. The wearer can connect an external terrain scanning machine to the free interface of the terminal. As long as the scanner is used in an unfamiliar area, we can obtain three-dimensional data very conveniently. Map information is fed back to other terminals to form matching maps.”

Harmful.

Isn’t this just a large smartwatch?

The functions Ai Jianfeng is introducing now are basically standard features of smart watches.

Except that the map mapping function looks a bit high-end, the other features are not unusual.

However, as if sensing Su Mo's doubts, Ai Jianfeng changed the subject and immediately revealed the true power of the terminal.

"What I just introduced is only the functions that the wearer can currently use. I know these are not very interesting. But what I want to say next is where he is truly powerful."

"You can completely understand that each terminal is a miniature signal transceiver device that can build a wireless network that belongs only to us."

"According to the existing design, the terminal signal can be overclocked to a maximum of twenty kilometers, and perfect mutual transmission can be achieved within a range of five kilometers. That is, if there are twenty terminals moving forward in a row, the data on the first terminal will It can be transmitted remotely and wirelessly to the 20th station, and the delay per 100 kilometers will not exceed 5 seconds.”

"Even if the design is based on the maximum distance, that is, there are only five terminals building a network per 100 kilometers, the delay can still be maintained within thirty seconds!"

It's a bit like mesh wireless networking between routers.

If the data of A wants to be transmitted to D, it can be easily achieved by passing through the intermediate B and C.

"Here I go, is this gadget so powerful?"

Sumo stared wide-eyed, not expecting that the thing he asked for would appear in front of him so easily.

To use the real world, the signal must be received from the user's body back to the virtual realm service unit in the territory.

Building a signal transmission network is almost impossible in a wasteland with frequent natural disasters.

Damn it.

Thinking about it this way, the improved version of the Adventurer Terminal is simply too powerful.

Although the delay is now terrifyingly high, basically it can only transmit some text information.

But can this thing evolve at all? Can it be upgraded?

Aiming at the required direction, use survival points specifically to survive a few times. Are you still afraid that the signal range will not be spread out?

What's more, it's not impossible to simply use the adventurer terminal as a network transceiver device.

At that time, you only need to install one every five kilometers in the territory, and full network coverage will be achieved without any effort.

Not only do you no longer have to pay the expensive game territory chat channel usage fee every month.

It can be more convenient

No, wait.

"You developed this thing because there is no game panel and you can't see their chat, right?"

"Uh hahahaha."

Ai Jianfeng laughed twice, showing an awkward yet polite laugh.

Damn it.

Without the game panel, not only can't you experience the powerful route bonus, but you can't even enter the fun chat channel.

Every day, I heard the gangsters in the lab discussing gossip on the world chat, secretly exchanging interesting things on the territory chat panel.

Ai Jianfeng was not worried that this group of people would secretly complain about him.

After all, compared to Lu Kuan's bad temper, he was already extremely kind.

But the key was that he couldn't see the messages complaining about Lu Kuan, which made him scratch his head and become anxious.

"Ahem, it's like this. If we want to recruit more Blue Star natives in the future, we must open up a channel for mutual communication. This will cause a serious disconnection between each gathering place in our territory.

Now, we have this brand new terminal, which can fully allow everyone in the territory to participate in the communication! We can even develop a market-like function to remotely realize friendly transactions between humans on Earth and humans on Blue Star."

"That makes sense. How many units can we produce from our current inventory?"

Su Mo nodded slightly, very sure of what Ai Jianfeng said.

Indeed, there are few Blue Star natives in the territory now, so it's no problem if they don't communicate frequently.

But what if there are more people in the future?

Once the number of natives reaches a qualitative level, it will be difficult to think about opening up the communication channels between the two sides.

"Three hundred units!"

I didn't expect it to be so easy to convince the lord.

Ai Jianfeng happily reported a specific number: "The materials used to produce this type of castrated terminal are not rare, they are nothing more than polycarbonate, aluminum alloy, and the LCD screen has that decomposition machine. In addition to Au, our reserves of precious metals can already meet the production needs of nearly 20,000 units."

"Okay, I'll find a way to get some gold for you as soon as possible."

Su Mo looked at him and said, making an "understanding" expression.

Gold has too wide a range of applications, and the way to obtain it is very rare, which is really a hassle.

As a high-order element composed of 79 protons.

If there is a high-energy particle accelerator, perhaps you can try to bombard higher-order elements with particles that are close to the speed of light.

For example, bombarding element 83 bismuth, knocking off 4 protons from the nucleus, leaving only 79 protons, you can artificially create an element like gold.

Or directly attack element 80 mercury, as long as you can make it lose a proton, you can immediately get a lot of gold.

You can even use addition, bombarding platinum with neutrons and adding a neutron can also produce it.

However, the reason why this method is not used is very simple.

The technology of artificial gold is not impossible to break through, but its cost cannot be compressed.

Even as strong as the Foundation, according to Sean's previous words.

Even at the headquarters of the Foundation, gold is a real hard currency that can be exchanged for any valuable items.

After thinking about it, the only place that can be explored around is Qinggang City.

"I really hope that those mole guys can fight tomorrow."

After sending Ai Jianfeng away, Su Mo looked at the terminal prototype left on the desktop and wished sincerely.

Now that he is penniless, he doesn't even have the urge to open the system to scan the specific information of the terminal in his hand.

What if?

What if an option pops up that is extremely tempting, but it is impossible to upgrade now.

That would be too uncomfortable.

Having experienced this feeling many times, Su Mo shook his head and began to lower his head to edit the plan for the New Year event.

It just so happened that with the addition of these 300 adventurer terminals, the prizes seemed to be more tempting.

No.

Calling it Adventurer Terminal is too tacky. Its status will only rise in the future.

It must be renamed as soon as possible!

Picking up the pen and writing down several names on the paper, Su Mo was not very satisfied and simply slapped his head:

"Let them crowdfund the name. Why should I think so much about it?"

"That's right, this is a qualified lord, how democratic!"