You need a Meraki (wireless mesh router) somewhere to use this, but it’s all part of a free internet effort for low-income housing – using one of the Merkai’s and these Wi-Fi repeaters it looks like you could cover up to 4 apartments with a total of 50 on one DSL line… The standard Meraki […]
College Of Computing @ Georgia Tech have a great DIY Bluetooth accelerometer, source and schematic included — This is a small wireless sensor platform providing a bluetooth SPP link to three axes of accelerometer data. The accelerometers are sampled by a PIC microcontroller (onboard ADC) at roughly 100Hz (rate can be changed via firmware). Data […]
Cody writes – I purchased an iTrip off eBay for $30 shipped. I wasnt expecting it to work good due to the many negative reviews I have read about it. I started off by pulling the antenna out of the case for a better signal. It did increase the performance, but not enough. I found […]
Daenris writes – This project uses an RF receiver module to trigger a pulsing LED Heart when the transmitter comes within range. I made this for my fiance for Valentine’s Day this year. I have yet to fully test the range, as I haven’t actually taken the transmitter out of our apartment building since I […]
Some folks go caroling on Xmas, others release open source hardware projects, like this one… A RF jammer – “This website details the design and construction Wave Bubble: a self-tuning, wide-bandwidth portable RF jammer. The device is lightweight and small for easy camoflauging: it is the size of a pack of cigarettes. An internal lithium-ion […]
Doug made a simple battery pack for Ham radio’ing while backpacking, it’s housed in a giant Altoids tin, he writes – “I have a 10 cell ‘AA’ NiMH battery pack (12V @ 1.6AH) that I use for backpacking. It needed a home! I also wanted a voltmeter built-in so I could keep track of it’s […]
Seth writes in with this Wii mod, crack the case, pop off the WNIC and add a 5dBi antenna for better signal – “The Nintendo Wii is an internet appliance as much as it is a console, which means it needs an internet connection to fully realize it’s potential. But what if your Wii is […]
