The system I chose for this assignment was creating a string telephone. To make this I used two cups and some string. I poked holes in the bottom of each cup and passed the string through it. Then I tied knots in the string so it would not come out of the cup. For the string telephone to work the cups have to be far enough apart so that the string is tight.
For the original messaged I talked directly into the cup and had my friend record the audio on his phone from the other side. To make more generations I had him play the audio back on his phone speaker into the cup while I recorded the other cup with my phone. We did this until there was 9 generations and the audio is completely unrecognizable.
Although most of the distortion was because of the cup and string system, a good deal of it was also done due to the phones’ microphones and their speakers.