Beer and (wirelessly accessed) porn? Score.

This has been an unintelligent post.

Posted at 3:47 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by tahm

first w00t

Posted at 3:59 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by olliestyles

thank god something a bit different and no leds involved makes good sense thanks steve

Posted at 4:21 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by steve

just wondering.. did you have to brush the aluminum or was it just for looks? would it work without most of the “print” being brushed off?

thx

Posted at 4:35 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by g0d

really steve, you need to shut the hell up for a while. Everyone was pissed off at you yesterday, why would you bring it up again? I happen to like LEDs… cause there cool.

Posted at 6:24 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by profsparks

an important thing to remember with this hack is to really flatten the metal well, it make a difference. this might be harder to do when you’re drunk… i think every great hack involves beer in one way or another.

Posted at 7:21 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by nguyen_van_thoc

That antenna is just beautiful.

Posted at 9:15 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by strider_mt2k

The brushed alum is just for looks. Who needs ingredients, legal babble, or barcodes?

Cheers

Posted at 10:49 pm on Jun 29th, 2006 by Coreyfro

a reflector panel covered in barcodes would be pretty cool tho..

Posted at 1:05 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by g0d

does anyone know what sort of background is needed to design antennas? are there any good resources to learn the theory behind it? thanks.

Posted at 1:13 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by dennis

Who gets drunk off a 25oz beer? :P

I’d have to make at least three of these to feel it, lol.

Really though, cool post. I’m going to have to try making one myself!

Posted at 1:20 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by greg0r

dennis – if you want a book you should probably look into the ARRL’s stuff.
http://www.arrl.org/catalog/?category=VHF%2FUHF%2FMicrowave&words=
Obviously there’s stuff on the web too but it would depend to some extent what frequencies you were interested in. There’s plenty on ~2.4GHz and FM VHF due to WiFi hacker / amateur radio / pirate radio use :)

Posted at 5:43 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by Bob

really nice, i would make one if i needed one but i dont need one so i dont need one then i dont need to build one since i done need one.
i get drunk after 25oz beer?

Posted at 6:08 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by PWNA

dennis: the AARL handbook is a good place to start, there are also books on HAM radio and antenna theory at public libraries. I think its physics2 in college(it was phy212 for me) will give you plenty of information on induction. There is also forums on netstumbler.com that you can read about all kinds of wifi info (but don’t post anything, those guys have become jerks(or, all the cool guys left, and only jerks are still there). Also do a google search for Lincomatic, he built a crap load of antennas and documented his work). And of course, like eliot already pointed out, Trevors site.

Posted at 8:52 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by fucter

lots of diy wifi antenna designs
http://wireless.binarywolf.com

Posted at 11:09 am on Jun 30th, 2006 by howl