I was so tickled when I got my ThinkGeek catalog last week and saw their Wi-Fi Detector shirt. I immediately went to the site to look at it, and blog about it, but it was nowhere to be found.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:29
Sparkbench has a ton of beautiful retro radio restorations - "Vintage Radio restoration is a passion of mine. It always gives me a thrill to bring one of these relics back to like new condition.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:28
Frequent Maker and Roomba hacker extraordinaire Tobdbot writes -
The Parallax RFID reader is a pretty cool bit of tech. For $40 you get a reader with integrated antenna that outputs ASCII at 2400bps.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:27
When Sarah Lemari?'s Logitech Bluetooth headphones snapped in half, as they are apparently wont to do, she did what any self-respecting hardware hacker would do: she mashed them up with a pair of corded phones that she liked to create her own set of wireless Frankenphones.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:25
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.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:24
Radiorental made an amazing wireless home router with analog utilization meter. . . I grew up in and around boats making wiring looms and control panels, and have a collection of gauges & dials that would normally be found connected to small marine diesel engines.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:23
Here's how to build a beer keg radio from Popular Science 1938 - NOVEL as well as serviceable, the beer-keg radio described on these pages will make a useful addition to the furnishings in your game room.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:22
Wow, here's a homemade QuadriFilar Helix antenna for APT satellite reception. What can you do with this? Pull down weather images as satellites orbit the earth and transmit their images - here's how it was made and some images snagged from NOAA18, NOAA17, NOAA15 and NOAA12 - Link.
Via Makezine | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:16
Slapping a wifi card into a pc isn't very ground breaking, but [Darkside] had to add a PCI header and trace the board just to hook up a keyboard before he could do much with his old intel vpn gateway.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:15
Another highlight for us at CCC was [Karsten Nohl] and [Henryk Plötz] presenting how they reversed Philips crypto-1 "classic" Mifare RFID chips which are used in car keys, among other things.
Via Hack a Day | Posted on 2008.03.12 at 11:14