dicking around with designing a complex USB hub when you have cheap stuff in the $10 region that can easily be shucked outta its shell and used is overkill.
the stuff with the antennas being stuck to the alu chassis sounds off to me, but I don’t know enough to be sure. first off, I doubt that just sticking the antennas to the shell makes the shell work as one. second, the alu enclosure should limt the radiation from the antennas, no?
but major props to the author, I don’t care that he’ll potentially monetize such a cool project. what I’d much rather see would be using discarded tech, instead of spending gazillions on everything new and custom made.
like, for the longest time I wanted to stick a modern-ish board from a T14 or sumsuch in the shell of an old pre-unibody macbook. tons of room in there and a buncha stuff is USB (webcam, keyboard, touchpad) thus easily reused.
dicking around with designing a complex USB hub when you have cheap stuff in the $10 region that can easily be shucked outta its shell and used is overkill.
the stuff with the antennas being stuck to the alu chassis sounds off to me, but I don’t know enough to be sure. first off, I doubt that just sticking the antennas to the shell makes the shell work as one. second, the alu enclosure should limt the radiation from the antennas, no?
but major props to the author, I don’t care that he’ll potentially monetize such a cool project. what I’d much rather see would be using discarded tech, instead of spending gazillions on everything new and custom made.
like, for the longest time I wanted to stick a modern-ish board from a T14 or sumsuch in the shell of an old pre-unibody macbook. tons of room in there and a buncha stuff is USB (webcam, keyboard, touchpad) thus easily reused.