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Glowing Hobbit Sword Helps You Find Unsecured Wi-Fi

Posted by Soulskill on from the caught-in-a-web-soon-to-be-online dept.

Molly McHugh writes By disassembling your plastic Sting and incorporating the Spark Core, a tiny Wi-Fi development kit, you can hack the toy's light and enlist it to show you when you are near an unsecure network. The best part about this hack? It only requires two things: a Spark Core and a replica Sting with lights and sound, like this one."

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  1. Re:And walking around with it ... by rossdee · · Score: 3, Interesting

    But what about the 2nd Amendment?

    The right to bear arms includes swords as well as guns. Swords were more common when the constitution was written.