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Sys-Admin Dispenses Passwords With a Banana (thenewstack.io)
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.
That being said, time flies like an arrow but fruit flies like a banana :-)
This invention moves the bananas into the same category as printer ink cartridges.
"My wifi doesn't work!" "Have you tried to replace your banana, sir?"
When I tried to do something similar, all I got was a sexual harassment lawsuit!
#DeleteChrome
Man 1: I bet you $10 I can get Rachael to touch my banana. ... 5 hours later
Man 2: You're on!
Man 2: I thought you meant... never mind. Here's your $10.
" 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.
Fruity banana
At the Copacabana
Attracted a fly
Demanding WiFi
"Hear my buzz roar
As iWatch dance floor."
"We won't be nice
To you and your lice,"
Said the bouncer so dour
Wielding a swatter with power.
Get thee glass eyes, and, like a scurvy politician, seem to see things thou dost not.--King Lear