Mattw writes – “What happens when the grid breaks? Communications need to be restored. After Hurricane Katrina hit, BellSouth announced that it would take 3 months to restore phone lines. Volunteers using WiFi gear were able to connect churches and community centers within the first weeks and within three days of setting up an asterisk […]
BrutalByte writes – “In this tutorial, I will show you how to install a wireless game adapter into your XBOX internally so that you can have a wireless connection, where available, without the extra hardware.” [via] – Link.
Here’s a follow up from our previous coverage on Raghav FM Mansoorpur 1 – the DIY FM station and one of the only village radio stations on the Asian sub-continent was shut down – “India’s authorities are being urged to relent after shutting a popular community radio station in northern Bihar state for not having […]
Amal writes – “With RFID being impervious to dust and dirt, and being totally contactless, it’s a perfect candidate for desktop authentication. In this feature, you’re going to build a covert RFID enabled USB keyboard that keeps its enhanced functionality a secret from the general public. You’ll be using open source software to enable the […]
It has begun. The WiFi robot bunny invasion. Toms Bunny writes in with more projects for the WiFi bunny – “My nabaztag dev site, I’ve created a gAIM plugin for the nabaztag and a UK lottery notifier (with some cunning crontab entries and PHP scripts)” – Link. Then head over to Ben Hammersley’s blog for […]
Amazing tiny radio controlled helicopter! – “The 60 mm rotor diameter, 3.3 grams Picoflyer is the smallest size electric powered contra-rotating coaxial-rotor RC helicopter ever built. It is battery powered and it uses the Proxflyer concept to give it inherent stability. It is built to test how small helicopters using the passively stable rotor concept […]
Wired has an article about some Makers who got tired of waiting for satellite radio to get to their phones / mobile devices, so they did it themselves – “Fans of U.S. satellite radio have been waiting eagerly for nearly a year to get XM or Sirius onto their cell phones. But as the two […]
