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Beyond Pringles: 802.11 Antenna From A Floppy Disk
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 ;))
... No wonder I can't understand a word. It's in 'Fremch'.
Warning: Fremch !! Beware!!
Reminds me of the RH8.0 install, was doing one today and noticed a package that was apparently to support "Brisish English"...
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?
Warning: Fremch
I'm so sick of these misspellings. It's supposed to be "Freedom" you illiterate git.
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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 ;-)
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
the last thing the article says is that its not going to work...
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.
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.
Perhaps the Slashdot crew have fallen for that, "Since France opposed the Iraq war, the word 'French' is obscene" stupidity. I suppose "Warning: Fremch" is better than the solution others would have used: "Warning: Freedom."
Babelfish
Hope the link works for you. Read English, right?
Saskboy's blog is good. 9 out of 10 dentists agree.
MacGyver is alive and well and living in Paris.
a world in progress...
With it already /.ed, it looks like he was serving the site with that thing...
:)
I can smell the smolding plastic and paperclips etc...
This thread made me use up all my floppies, sadly.
just add porn.
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the strongest word is still the word "free"
why they dont just get it over with and just use paperclips.
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I'm having trouble unfolding my trombones, can anybody help me?
Quid festinatio swallonis est aetherfuga inonusti?
Africus aut Europaeus?
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.
If you don't have something nice to sig, then don't sig anything at all.
Fremch is what you learn AFTER French, but you can only take it during Period 6 & 9...
If you don't have something nice to sig, then don't sig anything at all.
Wouldn't that just attract aliens?
"Sic Semper Tyrannosaurus Rex."
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Me
Actually everyone hates the French, it's just the smart ones that also hate bush. :)
Now yer talkin' about a REAL MAN'S way of buildin' it.
Sigs are bad for your health.
I built an aerial just like the French one in college, though somewhat larger ( 1GHz band) It was for a transmitter that used a tunnel diode (Esaki diode) as the frequency generator, and the objective was to be able to transmit audio from the tape deck in my room to the Leak amp and Quad speaker array two doors down, at a frequency which would be undetectable on any normal radio equipment. Which I guess proves that technologies come and go, but geeks just go on trying to download music.
Panurge has posted for the last time. Thanks for the positive moderations.
So thats how Macgyver gets his Centrino lappy to work anywhere in the world.
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.
/Styx
A floppy and a paperclip? That must mean it has to be a Mac floppy drive.
That I used to make a Bong with back in High school.....back in my whacky weed days :-D
Uh oh! Looks like the Fremch webserver trade unions are demonstrating again today.
(Hint to modders: It's about foreign current events. Try Googling +france +transportation +union +demonstrations.)
Wouldn't this make all sorts of chaotic noise (read: dropped packets) in a WiFi setup?
You don't need the string.
Moderation: +4. Modded 70% Funny and 30% Overrated. 100% Saturated.
As soon as you learn any version of English I might listen. "Please be learning...?" Quality.
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Amen, brother.
Wait, I am French. Well, I still hate the French. Parisians, anyway.
Standing at the very edge of my imagination, I peered into the inky void and realised -- I couldn't think up a new sig.
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.
According to the law of conservation of mass-energy mass cannot be destroyed, though it can be changed into energy.
Therefore, weapons of mass destruction are impossible by definition.
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Hello? Is this you, my dear mother-in-law? Oh wait, the connection gets worse. Quick, hand the phone to my wife.
Hugh Grant: This is no hooker, officer! She's an oral WiFi assistant technican and merely helps me to keep the connection up.
I could show you but you'll have to meet me there.
This guy is way out there
How about the users step in where the editors won't. If you post a article, mirror the text of it in your journal, then post a link to it in the article. Instant /. mirror. No one gets to karma whore just by posting a mirror either.
I am, and always will be, an idiot. Karma: Coma (mostly effected by
Almost as interesting as the article itself is the fact that timothy has finally attained a 1:1 mispelled to correctly spelled word ratio. This is clearly a monumental achievement as it indicates that he is well on his way to reaching the golden ratio (1.618): the ratio at which we will find all of timothy's posts extremely attractive.
Everyone's rooting for you timothy. Don't give up.
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(For those who missed out, "trombone" is french for "paper-clip")
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The easiest and highest-gain 802.11 antennas to build are of the waveguide + horn variety. Horns can easilly get you as much as 12-16 dB additional gain over just a waveguide (e.g. Pringles can).
For example, check out this horn build from cardboard and aluminum foil.
Yagis and other antenna element arrays are just too tough to build right, especially without a SWR meter. At 802.11 frequencies, just go horn. Save the Yagi's for lower frequencies, like 10MHz, where a horn would be nuts.
How to make your floppy drive into a WiFi Access Point. First, put in a linux floppy distro and load... oh wait, the antenna is stuck in there...
Nevermind...
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The pronunciation answser of course is the "naughties"
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The guy clearly does not understand what is he doing if he thinks the gain of antenna is 9dBi.
The page doesn't show how the coax cable is attached to folded dipole and how it is impendance matched.
Wow pretty big horn must that be.
Assuming waveguide is about 9dBi, the Horn must be 25dBi. High gain dish antennas are of that gain.