[Noisebridge-discuss] Circuit Hacking Monday, Dec 3 2012, 7PM -10PM at Noisebridge in San Francisco

[Andrew Byrne]

This is relevant to my interests.


On Sun, Dec 2, 2012 at 9:49 AM, John Ellis <neurofog at gmail.com> wrote:

> Cool idea Miloh!
>
> Here is the specific link;
> http://wiki.openwrt.org/toh/tp-link/tl-wr703n
>
> * Atheros AR7240 CPU (400Mhz)
> * Atheros AR9331 Chipset (integrated wireless)
> * 802.11 b/g/n 150Mbps (130Mbps real)
> * 4 MB flash memory
> * 32 MB RAM
>
> Also worth pointing out that when a router fails, such as a WRT-54 series
> or similar, its usually the capacitors or the regulator in the power supply
> section. This could be fixed/hacked at CHM as well.
>
> -John
>
> On Sat, Dec 1, 2012 at 5:22 PM, miloh <froggytoad at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>> Circuit Hacking Monday, Dec 3 2012, 7pm - 11pm
>>
>> Next Dec 3, 2012, at Circuit Hacking Monday, I'm going to lead a
>> detour from the normal fare of kits and soldering, towards commodity
>> electronics and embeddded devices land.  let's focus on the strengths
>> of ddwrt and openwrt, get an over view of extant projects and
>> documentation, and see what interesting stuff we can find in openwrt
>> ddwrt's package managers.
>>
>> I'm interested in this because even though it's been a year since I
>> first saw the wr703n (at 29c3), which is a tiny little box that just
>> uses the a common IC chip often found in routers without all the extra
>> space normally devoted to a four port switch.  It really has the same
>> functionality as routers that you can put openwrt or ddrwrt on, but
>> reduces size to about a 3"x3"x1".
>>
>> I only know the basics about the subject, but I bet many folks at
>> Noisebridge have knowledge to share and know which devices to hunt for
>> for certain features. Can anyone come in next Monday with hacked
>> routers to show off?
>>
>> Bring out your old routers and set them up to use again. If you have
>> spare, unused old routers, bring them in to donate for projects to
>> install at Noisebridge. I know this is kind of old stuff compared to
>> rpis and due's and whatnot, so bring in that new stuff also, if you
>> have it, but for this Monday
>>
>> As always with Noisebridge events, this is free to all and everyone is
>> welcome.
>>
>>
>> -Ronald Miloh Alexander
>>
>> references to the stuff i'm writing about above:
>>
>> the openwrt project
>> https://openwrt.org/
>>
>> example of a project:  mightyohm's internet radio project
>>
>> http://mightyohm.com/blog/2008/10/building-a-wifi-radio-part-1-introduction/
>>
>> wireless router firmware projects from wikipedia (donate to wikipedia!)
>> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wireless_router_firmware_projects
>>
>> wr703n on dealextreme
>>
>> http://dx.com/p/tp-link-tl-wr703n-mini-3g-2-4ghz-802-11b-g-n-150mbps-wireless-router-blue-158552
>>
>> 29c3
>> http://events.ccc.de/
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