Simon @ Scitoys shows you how to build a computer controlled wireless transmitter - "How would you like to send text messages to your friends without wires, and without an Internet connection, and without paying monthly fees? In this project we will build a very simple radio transmitter that you attach to a serial port on your computer.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:38
Tanais writes "This is a follow up to an article I did shoehorning an ordinary Lucent Card into an iBook's Airport slot -- that was published in the Make: blog here This time I decided to use the same Lucent card but with a pair of DIY "coil" antennae to boost the signal of the Airport enough to reach me through two stone walls of my home.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:38
(screenshot from James Kendrick's blog entry)
I had this problems a couple of years ago when Verizon upgraded southern Rhode Island from 1xRTT to 1xEV-DO.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:36
MAKE pal Mark writes - "Well, my last project involved this Lucent WaveLAN-card I managed to cramp into my old iBook. . . But I bought a couple of them and now I did a write-up on how to get an eMate wireless with one of those cards" - Link.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:35
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 a licence.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:33
Michael Sheridan's Culture Catchers grab shortwave radio signals from all over the world and plays them back as people get near them - "Installed as Distant Views for the 2005 Boston Cyberarts Festival and subsequently as Culture Catchers at the gallery G-A-S-P.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:32
Red Scorpion writes - "I have always been frustrated with the performance of my laptop Wi-Fi. I tried many solutions to improve the signal from far away routers, but few of these worked.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:31
Eric Seifert sent in some information on creating a home brew radio modem using a standard PC sound card, an iPod FM transmitter, and an FM radio. He has his current revision working at 9600 BAUD for distances in the neighborhood of hundreds of feet.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:30
DD-WRT, the awesome open source router firmware, has a feature that will turn your router into a wireless client instead of an access point. In this configuration, a cheap 802.
Via Hackszine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:30
John Jenkins has one of the largest collections of scientific instruments in one place on the web! He writes - " Welcome to my "virtual" radio and scientific instruments museum where I display the radios and other items I have collected over the past 35+ years.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:30