Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana (thenewstack.io)

Posted by timothy on Saturday January 23, 2016 @08:31PM from the difficult-to-defend-against-bananas dept.

An anonymous reader writes: A network administrator in Denmark is requiring users to perform a finger press on a banana to receive their Wi-Fi passwords. "The banana is mounted and in production," he posted Thursday, sharing two pictures. The banana uses a special new circuit board from Makey Makey to form a connection between the banana and a cheap Raspberry Pi computer with a screen attached, according to one technology site. They note that it could also detect finger presses on a doughnut, an apple, or even Jell-o, and offer this quote from the sys-admin about his motivations. "It's fun... It'll make people smile. It beats a static WPA password in funnyness." And most importantly, "When people leave our office, they can't access our WI-Fi because there's no banana to touch." This guy deserves some kind of award, come July 29th.

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Electronics today. by SuricouRaven · 2016-01-23 23:53 · Score: 5, Interesting

" The banana uses a special new circuit board from Makey Makey"
Really? The Pi has GPIO pins, and you can't interface to a banana without a special new circuit board?
You want a BS170 FET and a really high resistance pull-up/down, about 10M should do it. Two components, about 10p worth of parts, and a bit of wire.