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This RFID card has a lot of nice features. But the one that stands out the most is the ability to learn the code from anther RFID tag or card.
You can see that the board includes an etched coil to interact with an RFID reader. This is the sole source of power for the device, letting it pick … Read the rest
Seen at the center of this image is a TP-Link TL-MR3020 which is basically a TL-WR703N wireless router with a few extra LEDs. We’ve seen a lot of projects using this hardware and that’s because it’s cheap and ripe for hacking. The devices can run OpenWRT, a Linux distro for routers that greatly extends the functionality when compared to the … Read the rest
Everyone loves getting something you can play with as a Christmas gift. [Thomas] was the lucky recipient of an Elektor USB weather station kit. But the fun didn’t end once he had assembled everything. He went on to hack the device for wireless data collection.
Shown above is the weather station board connected to the transmitter. The red board … Read the rest
This is [illwill]‘s Pirate Box, the newest addition to the network over at NESIT, the Meriden, CT hackerspace.
A pirate box is a completely anonymous wireless file server, kind of like a wireless version of a dead drop. It’s the perfect device for transferring files at a LAN party or hackerspace. The guts of [illwill]‘s portable server comes from … Read the rest
Ever responsive to the hobbyist market, Texas Instruments is releasing a very inexpensive, very simple WiFi module specifically designed for that Internet of Things.
The TI SimpleLink TI CC3000 WiFi module is a single-chip solution to putting 802.11b/g WiFi in just about every project you can dream up. Just about everything needed to put the Internet in a microcontroller is … Read the rest
[Bogdan] received this set of Serioux Panda speakers as a gift. I turns out that they sound very good and he decided to make them more useful to him by converting them to work as Bluetooth speakers.
To begin with he bought the cheapest A2DP device he could find. This is the protocol that identifies a Bluetooth audio device. … Read the rest
We think you’ll turn a few heads in Central Park if you’re driving a water melon around when everyone else is piloting sailboats. This watermelon is both sea worthy and radio controlled thanks to the work which [Starting Electronics] put into it.
We used this image because it shows you what’s inside of the hull, but you don’t want to … Read the rest
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