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Beyond Pringles: 802.11 Antenna From A Floppy Disk

Posted by timothy on from the but-who-has-floppies-anymore dept.

real gumby writes "Shades of E.E. "Doc" Smith! Thomas Gee has made an 802.11 antenna from an old floppy disk and a paper clip. He credits this site for the inspiration (featuring an antenna from an old ice cream spoon). As MacPlus comments: "It's stylish, effective, and doesn't detract from that `everything computing' ambience in your home."" Warning: French. Update: 06/07 18:27 GMT by T : (Not Fremch ;))

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  1. Alien language... by SpikyTux · · Score: 5, Funny

    ... No wonder I can't understand a word. It's in 'Fremch'.

  2. Now to find a floppy by nilepoc · · Score: 5, Funny

    I had a hard enough time finding one floppy to make into an Enterprise, and now I have to find another one to make an antanae. Where will the madness end?

  3. Fremch. by saintlupus · · Score: 5, Funny

    Warning: Fremch

    I'm so sick of these misspellings. It's supposed to be "Freedom" you illiterate git.

    * This post brought to you by the 2003 "The Flag Sure Is Purty Act". *

    --saint

  4. Awh geeze! by saskboy · · Score: 5, Funny

    Just when I throw all my old floppies away and start stocking up on Pringles Spicy Cajun cans I find out I didn't have to eat all those chips or throw away those disks. /. is just too slow at getting the news out ;-)

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  5. Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Makes me want to build my own 802.11 antenna out of an old phone, a Speak n spell, a record player, a bent fork, and some string.

  6. It's clear. by WalterDGeranios · · Score: 5, Funny

    From reading Slashdot, I've come to understand that there are two kinds of people in this world: those who see everything as it might relate to 802.11 antennae, and those who don't.

    1. Re:It's clear. by brianosaurus · · Score: 5, Funny

      I'm still waiting for some hardcore body piercer to turn his penis into an 802.11 antenna.

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    2. Re:It's clear. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

      > I'm still waiting for some hardcore body piercer to turn his penis into an 802.11 antenna.

      Homer Simpson voice:

      Signal goes up, signal goes down, signal goes up...

  7. OMG by Malfourmed · · Score: 5, Funny

    MacGyver is alive and well and living in Paris.

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  8. Obligatory bandwidth gag... by henele · · Score: 5, Funny

    With it already /.ed, it looks like he was serving the site with that thing...

    I can smell the smolding plastic and paperclips etc... :)

  9. Unloved Floppies Looking for a Loving Home by bj8rn · · Score: 5, Funny

    Each year, thousands and thousands of floppies get thrown away, as their owners switch to CD-R's and memorysticks. Most of them sadly end up in garbage dumps and incenerators, never to be seen again. We at the Floppy Disk Rescue Center care. Every day, we provide a new home and, quite often, a new life as a toy or a scinece project, for tens and hundreds of old floppies. This may be just a tiny drop of water in the sea, but with your help, we can make a difference. For more information about the locations of our Centers, just call 1-800-FLOP.

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  10. Re:Fremch? by techturtle · · Score: 5, Funny

    Fremch is what you learn AFTER French, but you can only take it during Period 6 & 9...

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  11. A Floppy and a Paperclip??? by ProfessionalCookie · · Score: 5, Funny

    A floppy and a paperclip? That must mean it has to be a Mac floppy drive.