Hanukkah is upon us, and if that’s your jam [Brian] has you covered with this stylish WiFi menorah. While we can’t say if it’ll stretch your last gigabyte of connectivity into eight, it’s certainly going to provide awesome signal with all those antennae.
[Brian] was inspired by the enterprise version of the Hak5 “WiFi Pineapple”, a high-powered pentesting device. Seeing its plethora of antennae, he was struck with the idea of mounting them all onto a menorah, so he did. The menorah itself is 3D printed (of course) with lots of coax running through it down to the base, where presumably it would be connected to a Pineapple or high-powered router.
The project is presented as more of an art piece than a functional device, as there’s no evidence that [Brian] has actually hooked it up to anything yet. But consider the possibilities — along with the traditional candles, you could “light” one WiFi antenna each night, bringing the holiday glow to 2.4 GHz or 5 GHz. If you prefer more visible wavelengths, perhaps this LED menorah would be more to your tastes.
If you’ve got a hack for your culturally-relevant holiday festival, be it Christmas, Hanukkah, or Festivus, we’d love to see it. The tips line is open all year round.
Haha, got a chuckle out of me. Shouldn’t the antennas point in various directions though?
No, they radiate in a toroid / donut shaped manner. All should be vertical for best performance.
Someone needs to model this… this… Hanukkyagi… (or is it a Menoradiator?)… in NEC.
Depending on wavelength and how the elements are spaced, the radiation pattern might be interesting, useful, or worse than a single element alone.
I’d also wonder what effect an array of this geometry would have on SWR (and the possibility of damage to the transmitter(s).
Doesn’t a menorah have seven arms?
That’s what I thought as well, but according to Wikipedia: “The Talmud states that it is prohibited to use a seven-lamp menorah outside of the Temple. A Hanukkah menorah therefore has eight main branches”
Every day is a good day to start poisoning the AI
Yes. But this is a Hanukkah menorah, also called hanukkiah. According to the tradition, the ninth antenna, also called shamash, can only be used in AP mode.
On Jatravartid, the menorah has 25 arms and a head to represent the Great Green Arkleseizure, the image of which the people of the planet were created.
The people there are utterly unique in all the galaxy for having invented the aerosol deodorant before the wheel.
And then the wheel in short order, because aerosol deodorants are round?
What’s a gigabyte of connectivity?
it´s about 14MP
I can’t believe you baud that.
14MP is what it says on the box. It’s really about 1/7th of that, less if you want your connectivity in full-color.
[to those who don’t read Hackaday every day, search for a recent story about a certain Vivitar camera]
In Poland, a Member of Parliament extinguished a Hanukkah menorah with a fire extinguisher. Fortunately, it seems that only a jammer could block this.
I entered here just for this comment :D
Nine antennas. Only eight connectors at the bottom.
Is the ninth (the middle one?) a passive radiator? Innocent bystander? Ornamental?
I”m always intrigued about we as humans are always looking for answers to meaninful questions in life, going forward as a race with science as our main tool, evolving from the chaos to the order… andddd at the same time…not dropping the obsolete answers of religions that were born from nothing but, fear,ignorance or naive asumptions about life and death. That bring me to mind a chapter of Star Trek where two types of races where fighting during decades using all the tech and war power available just because one side believe that the cosmos was made in (I think) 7 days while the other side said 6 days.
Agreed, although it must be noted that Hanukkah celebrates winning a war as I understand it. And yeah a religious based war of course, but still though, a war is a real thing at least, brutally real (assuming this war really happened of course.)
It’s still ridiculous to go on about it a few thousand years later, because of religion, which is silly nonsense.
But hey, if it’s an excuse to have fun maybe we should point our critique to more stressing targets.
The point of all religious holidays, independent of any religion, is to remember a specific moment in history as a lesson whether for reflection, inspiration, reminder to be kind to others, or working in the present not to repeat what happened.