@bob, you are a GENIUS!!!!

Throw a Ardunio into that and I can get you on the front cover of make!

@ bob, that made my day! caleb commenting made me lose it again

Some people like/have a use for this kind of thing, as evidenced by the MiFi from Verizon (and a variety of other 3G-supporting routers). It’s nice to have a zero-maintenance, plug it in and it works setup (which you could get with this via a simple udev script) that supports a bunch of connected computers at once. Some OS’s and WiFi dongles don’t actually support AP mode, so even with internet connection sharing you don’t end up getting the same functionality of this. There’s plenty of ways to do this; some require no expenses, some require a $100+ dedicated device. This requires something you might already have; call it a value add to an already fun and useful/hackable device.

But I digress. All I know is it was a lot of fun when four people were in my Mini Cooper, road-tripping up the West Coast and xobs (the chumby engineer who did this hack) pulled out his Falconwing (chumby One before it was named such) prototype board and ran some scripts to kick off internet sharing for the three passengers in the car. That was good times! This is just a cleaned up and simplified version of that hack, good to see he’s finally releasing it.

So yeah, @mike, it works for that pretty well. :P

It wouldn’t be a hack if you just plugged it into your laptop…

IMO this is an awesome hack!

I think I’m going to get a Chumby 1 now.
It seems pretty cool.

Nice hack!

I pity the douche that hangs on a hacking site and tries to tell people to use stuff the way it’s intended.
Good luck with that. LOL