Need internet access in your garden? Or maybe your garage across the street? You could always set up a pair of cantennas, but heres another approach using parts which you may already have, ingredients are as follows….
2.4ghz Antenna
2 Wireless Access Points
10" PVC Pipe
Double-sided foam tape
Now mash those parts together using the instructions at Danny’s excellent Mavromatic.com and you should be able to extend the distance of your wifi signal by quite some distance.
Getting power to the unit would be tricky under normal circumstances, but using Power Over Ethernet the unit can be powered by an easily weatherproofed network cable, solar power would also be another option.
Although this units operation is hampered slightly by its low position, if this is an issue for you then it could always be mounted higher, in a tree or on a pole. If you were thinking about mounting it higher then looking into solar power might be in order. It elevated position would be perfect for catching those rays.
This device seems to be legal to operate as you are only repeating the signal, not amplifying it. As long as it’s on your property then I can’t imagine you would have any problems…
Check out these links for more information on DIY WiFi repeaters…
Step by Step solar powered WiFi repeater tutorial from Popular Science Part One - Part Two
This laptop at LAX burst into flames whilst the owner was using it. Watch as the fire burns through each of the batteries cells, causing further explosions..
Don’t think I could ever relax whilst using a laptop again if this ever happened to me! The laptop in question was an IBM but no word on the make of battery it was using, could it be one of the infamous exploding Sony batteries Dell also use?
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I’m not holding out much hope for the new knightrider pilot, mostly due to the lack of a Pontiac Trans-AM. At least Glenn A Larson is back as executive producer to give it some form of credibility.
Their site takes us through the process from start to finish and documents their efforts and the various different revisions they had to create before finally coming up with the finished article.
A total of 288 LED’s were used in the form of Luxor LED units. It also has 1/8" tinted acrylic fitted over the top to make the light invisible when it is powered off but also allows it to shine through when turned on.
If you want to read the whole article then head on over to the musclecarblog.com for a full writeup with loads of videos and photos, one of which you can view below….
Be sure to check out our previous article on K.I.T.T DIY Electronics to create your own version!
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Geohot, the teenage hacker who originally won the iPhone hacking competition, along with a brand new Nissan 350z and 3 iPhones, has managed to do it again. Apple had managed to block all previous unlocking attempts with a new firmware but that , it seems, has now been cracked.
He has managed to get into the phone via some high level memory registers which Apple seem to have left unprotected. Apparently, Apple receive around $400 for every iPhone that is connected to an authorised network, so if your buying an iphone to unlock it then Apple gets none of that revenue.
Apple already make us pay for the phone on top of the contract yet they still want to make more money from you, it just comes down to greed on their part.
So if you want to free your iPhone then why not check out some of the following guides which will show you step by step how to do it.
A great software package that is included as part of the Dynebolic Boot DVD is Hascii Cam. A quick explanation is below….
‘HasciiCam makes it possible to have live ascii video on the web. It captures video from a tv card and renders it into ascii letters, formatting the output into an html page with a refresh tag, or in a live ascii window, or in a simple text file. It gives the possiblity to anybody that has a bttv card, a unix box and a cheap modem line to show live (h)ascii video can be viewed without any need for extra applications, plugins, java etc.’
The package allows you to input images or video and have it converted to ASCII animations. It even allows you to input live video and have it streamed to your website as ASCII in realtime
If your thirsty for more you can download the Dynebolic Bootable DVD from this link http://dynebolic.org/. Dynebolic is a Linux live bootable DVD containing opensource multimedia tools…
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Joshua Wright from the SANS Institute demonstrates how to eavesdrop on bluetooth headsets in this video.
The moral of this tale is to always make sure your phone and headset are running the very latest firmware, even then, things still aren’t 100% secure. Big Brother is watching Listening!
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Ok, so we’ve all just about gotten over the combination of Diet Coke and Mentoes. Heres another strange combo that has even more impressive results!
When a red gummi bear is added to Potassium Chlorate, which is made up of Potassium, Chlorine and Oxygen, and heated, it reacts violently with the sugar creating fireworks!
Wonder if different colour bears create different colour effects?
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Following on from our Max Headroom Pirate TV Incident we reported on previously, we thought this may be of interest to some. In 1986, John R MacDougall was working at Central Florida Teleport which streams programs to satellites.
At the end of his shift, whilst docking the satellites back to their resting position, which just happened to be pointing directly at the Galaxy 1 satellite, he typed a message into the terminal keyboard and hit transmit.
The time was 12:32AM on Sunday April 27th
His message, overlayed onto a test card was beamed to the Galaxy satellite and was seen by everyone watching HBO in the Eastern time Zone for a whole 4 and a half minutes.
The message, a screengrab can be found at the top of this article, said the following….
GOOD EVENING HBO
FROM CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT
$12.95/MONTH?
NO WAY!
SHOWTIME / MOVIE CHANNEL BEWARE!
The Slurpr is a 6 channel WIFI router which automatically connects to the 6 strongest WiFi networks in the vicinity. It then combines these connection into one super-fast connection.
‘A big, fat access point with a large antenna and a bunch of Wi-Fi cards that automatically connect to the strongest signals it can pick up. Then it would combine all these signals into one FreeLoading Broadband Canal for me to use’
The unit is handmade and based on the RouterBOARD 532 from www.routerboard.com - They then added 6 mini PCI Atheros WiFi cards and a 4Gb Compact Flash card.
The rear of the unit contans standard WiFi antenna connections which currently have compact aerials attatched, but external antennas could easily be connected.
The Slurpr runs on Debian Linux and although the creators admit that some fine tuning is needed, the unit does operate.
They are also discussing the possibility of including some automatic WEP cracking tools onboard allowing the unit to automatically seek out and crack WEP encrypted WiFi access points.
This modification would undoubtedly make this unit highly illegal to operate or possibly own. Even in this inmodified state, the Slurpr seems to be an extremely useful device to have around, especially if you do a lot of travelling and need fast connections wherever you go.
A great software package that is included as part of the 
was working at Central Florida Teleport which streams programs to satellites. 
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