Ask Hackaday: Building nano scale antennas

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As an RF engineering student, [Camerin] is usually tasked with pointless yet educational endeavors by his advisor and professors. Most of the time (we hope) he sees the task through and ends up pulling something out of his hat, but a few days ago a professor dropped a bombshell on him. After reading this article on nano scale antenna fabrication, a professor asked [Camerin] if it was possible to … [Read more...]

Tactical Wifi Cantenna Needs Picatinny Rails

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[Wes] built a cool looking Tactical Wifi Cantenna with some parts from a broken airsoft pistol. The antenna is a cookie can type with an added cone to increase performance, as seen in this tutorial. Once the antenna was built it was time to add some kind of handle, [Wes] just so happened to have such a thing on hand. After epoxy puddying the pistol's grip to his cookie cantenna he observed that … [Read more...]

EM Brace for sensing magnetic fields

We've discussed the notion of using machines to add or improve sensory input to the body before, and we've found another project with the same idea. [Nick Hasty] has developed an object he calls the EM Brace, which allows the user to sense electromagnetic fields with a wave of the hand. The device works by connecting two antennas to an enclosure that contains a speaker. The enclosure is intended … [Read more...]