[Imc-makerspace] Cool New Hardwarez

[Brian Duggan]

Sounds pretty cool - and totally doable. Great idea!

Have you ever heard of a Pirate Box? (Look familiar, Urbana folks?)

http://wiki.daviddarts.com/PirateBox

It's half of what you described, minus the ability to stream any MP3 
files anyone uploads. But you could easily add that with the icecast 
package for OpenWRT.

Let us know what you do with it!

Brian
On Fri Oct  7 16:58:19 2011, Bill Hannaford wrote:
> Got one of these today...
> http://www.planex.net/product/router/mzk-w04nu.htm
>
> Let me know if you have any crazy ideas. 
>
> For example...
>
> Configure the router to turn up as an access point but it doesn't
> access the internet.  Someone connects, opens a browser, they
> get a webpage served from the USB drive.  It has a "listen now"
> link which serves up an icecast stream also from the USB drive. 
>
> In essence, it's a pirate radio station, except it broadcasts on wifi,
> and the listener's receiver also transmits to the station.  Listeners
> could then upload mp3s to automatically enter into the playlist.
> And the FCC?  You don't need a license to operate a wifi router.
>
> Don't know if feasible on the processing power of a router alone.
> One downside would be that listeners would have tied up their
> wireless and couldn't use it to otherwise connect to the internet.
>
>
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