[Archantos] sent us this one. The mustumbler project is actually trying to use some external hardware to make a miniature wireless stumbler. [Archantos] points out that it’s could be a cheap way to get your hands on an ARM development platform. He’s right. Just a few connections gets access to the I2C bus, a GPIO expander for I2C runs the LCD and an EEPROM is there for program storage. The software is still being sorted out, but the hardware itself is functional. If they can manage to reverse engineer the Conexant chipset, they should have a very promising platform.
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WiCrawl – Next-gen WiFi Auditor
At ToorCon, our friends at Midnight Research Labs released a new automated WiFi auditing tool called WiCrawl. WiCrawl automatically scans for accesspoints. Once an AP is discovered a number of plugins can be run against it ranging from getting an IP to breaking encryption. Aaron Peterson’s talk and demo is 50mins. You can download the 640×480 170MB .mov version here. The tool is going to be included in the next BackTrack CD.
Bluetooth Roomba Phone Remote
He’s pimping his book a bit, but Tod sent in his hack for controlling his bluetooth roomba with a bluetooth phone. He released the bluetooth interface hack Now he”s whipped up a phone application that lets him fully control the roomba via bluetooth.
Floppy Connector MMC Card Slot
Rob Wentworth sent in his simple MMC card slot hack. He used that useless card edge floppy connector to add a MMC/SD card to his WRT54G. A quick rebuild and a spacer made it perfect connector. The connector meets the MMC pins perfectly, but skips the unneccesary SD contacts.
Steerable Cantenna
I almost passed over this one, since it’s another cantenna. With the software the Adrian wrote, it’s a fully functional directional wifi scanner. The system can pan and scan a region and visualize the results. Scan resolution can be varied, similar to a regular image scanner. It’s built from a pair of stepper motors ,a PIC on a SIMM stick with a serial interface.
USB WiFi External Antenna
[ronobvious] purchased a Ralink based USB WiFi adapter for use with Aircrack-ng. It worked well so he decided to add an external antenna connector. The connector from Linx Technologies that he chose is really what makes this installation clean. It’s a card-edge design so you just slip it over the end and solder the pin and ground leg. He’s got a link to Tobias Hain’s similar mod and Tobias has a link to a another antenna project as well.
Fun FON Hacking
With FON now selling their “social routers” for $5 a piece it seems like a good time to mention Hack-A-Day reader [Steve Anderson]’s previous FON hacking experience. By purchasing one of FON’s subsidized routers you agree to participate in their network for at least one year. Steve had a look at the patched OpenWRT firmware FON uses and found the heartbeat system they use to monitor compliance. He then swapped out the firmware and spoofed the heartbeat with a cron job. This hack is an ethical trade off: remove FON’s firmware and violate their terms of service or keep FON’s firmware which probably violates your ISP’s TOS. In related WRT54G news: you can now flash Linux onto v5 and v6 routers without hardware modification. So if you’re at all worried, just buy one for the regular price off the shelf.
[thanks bird603568 and fucter]
