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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. A little help over here? by Capt'n+Hector · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I'm having trouble unfolding my trombones, can anybody help me?

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  2. Funstuff with 802.11 - maybe off topic... by techturtle · · Score: 5, Interesting

    This whole 802.11 home brew stuff is pretty interesting. I live less than a mile away from a buddy of mine and have been kicking around the idea of setting up our own little wireless lan using something like this (doubt I'll be building the antenna out of floppies though).
    Ran across this: Reach Out and Touch Someone. Warning: Engmish!

    One of the funniest things about the aricle is him going door to door offering to pay for DSL service to get help with the expirement. Most people turned him down! Show's how paranoid and distrustfull we've become (not surprising)... And man if he'd been caught peeping around at houses with his binoculars or telescopes! The big problem I have is that it took him $1400 to get it going. Seems like it could be done way cheaper to me.

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  3. Mac Torrents by rbeattie · · Score: 2, Interesting

    MacGyver torrents

    -Russ

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  4. Linux and 802.11g by Styx · · Score: 4, Interesting
    A very easy to build antenna for 802.11b/g is the cantenna.
    It's much simpler than the Pringles can yagi, and to top that off, it delivers a much higher gain.

    A bit more OT. Did you know that the Linksys WAP54G access point is based on Linux?. Somewhat strange, that there are no linux drivers for Broadcom 802.11g wireless NICs.

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