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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. Re:Cool by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Insightful
    "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."


    Will your phone/speak and spell/record player/bent fork/string antenna run linux? If not you best be getting out of these parts...we dun like yer kind.

  2. Re:OMG by panda · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Do you know just how telling that statement is? When I lived if France 11 years ago, MacGyver was all the rage among French teens.

    --
    Just be sure to wear the gold uniform when you beam down -- you know what happens when you wear the red one.
  3. stupid americans by Simon+Bunhill · · Score: 1, Insightful

    Funny how some of the US posters here are, still, anti french. Though it was the US regime which lied about the reasons for war. France did what most of the world, still thinks, was right. Your stupid war in Iraq achieved nothing. Meanwhile many of us, internationally, are now refusing to buy US goods. I (British) will no longer buy US goods. We despair at your new McCarthyism. This will affect your economy. Nor will my mother buy US goods. And she was always completely moderate and perhaps slighlty right of centre. You people in the US need to wake up and stop believing the nonsense you read in your evil press.

    1. Re:stupid americans by sapone · · Score: 2, Insightful

      > It was the French who were doing business with Iraq during the embargo. It was the French who gave Iraqi leaders passage out of Iraq during the war.

      Would you mind substantiating your opinion with facts? Real facts, not plausible, but absolutely unfounded might-be-might-nots, like the invisible weapons of mass destruction.

      > The USA is a country founded on freedom

      No longer.

      > The USA is a world leader

      > and we will continue to be a world leader

      The United States' militant insistence on that is the cause for much of the world's current woes. If the US so desperately need to triumph and celebrate themselves, i see no problem with it; but please do it at home and leave the world at peace.

      You have fallen to a misconception... nobody envies the US' wealth, but many fear the US' meddling. The open aggressiveness, the readiness to ignore international treaties and conventions, war, bombs, foreign intelligence, you get the picture.

      Sebastian