Simon from Auckland, New Zealand, created his own station for receiving signals from weather satellites using a homemade antenna using coax and PVC. I really enjoyed his write-up, it’s very informative and contains tons of links.
UMass Amherst hardware hackers Blake Foster, Rui Wang, and Erik Learned-Miller built this articulated realtime tracking rig using a GPU, Arduino, and FPV Pan-Tilt camera.
If you like Nokia hardware, but haven’t quite grown accustomed to the MeeGo OS, then you’ll really dig thisport of Android 2.2 “Froyo” to the Nokia N900.
Brooklyn-based sandbenders EXOvault iPhone Cases made a big splash back in February when they first introduced these custom cases machined from solid billet aluminum and/or brass. They’ve expanded their product line since then to add fancy engraving and rosewood inlay, and their prices seem quite reasonable, starting at $110 for the basic aluminum model shown above and ranging up to $165 for the fancy engraved brass version.
I have no idea what signal gain aarobc is getting with this setup, but whatever it is I’m sure it doesn’t compare to the novelty of it all.
It’s always interesting to see what people will do to go out of their way to get what they want. For instance, take this iPad MiFi mod from Jared of LMG Satellite. There’s absolutely no need to do this. Both devices will talk to each other over WiFi. But if you’ve got the itch, by all means, scratch away.
I love it when the internet seems to magically anticipate your needs and provides the info you desire. Such was the case today when, just last night, I thought I needed to finally break down and figure out how to seriously boost the wi-fi range in our house (which is too unreliable on the other […]
