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Connect a monitor to your wireless AP

Connect a monitor to your wireless AP

Ever feel that the web configuration interface for your wireless access point didn’t give you the control you desired? Why not just connect a keyboard and monitor directly to the router and bypass having to access it from another device? That’s what Sven Killig has done with this clever hack using a DisplayLink device and some open source know-how.

Ask MAKE: Summer camp bugle automation

Ask MAKE: Summer camp bugle automation

Ask MAKE is a weekly column where we answer reader questions, like yours. Write them in to becky@makezine.com or drop us a line on Twitter. We can’t wait to tackle your conundrums! YMCA summer camp director Don Jennings writes in: Summer camp runs on signals – bells, bugles, claxons, etc. And though the old-timers grumble, […]