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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'.
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.
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...
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Hell is not other people; it is yourself. - Ludwig Wittgenstein
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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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.
A floppy and a paperclip? That must mean it has to be a Mac floppy drive.