 John Schuch did what I’ve been thinking about for quiet some time. To take a existing RF device and turn it into a power (AC) control.
And here’s some food for thought for you DIY’ers. How about taking one of those cute small radio controll cars and turn it into a dimmer control? The benefit of using these small cars as a build base would be that the rf reciever cards are very very small. Link: Turning a wireless doorbell into a remote control relay |
 Bluetooth is cool but unfortunatley I don’t have it build into my laptop. There is an empty mini-pci slot available but after trying to find a good Bluetooth card to put in there without spending a fortune I simply dropped that solution. And using one of these dirt cheap USB Bluetooth dongles is a hazzle as I don’t like having that sticking out of my laptop the whole time. Well, why not build it in as Tom did! I’ve seen this kind of projects before – but this one really only uses a Bluetooth dongle plus some cables. No hub or any other electronics so it’s actually a no-brainer to get this one working. That is as long as you have the space within the laptop to hide the dongle away… Read about how he did it in Adding internal Bluetooth to a Dell Latitude |
 Using an MP3 player connected to the car stereo is cool. Connecting your iPAQ is cooler. But coolest is definitely to play your MP3’s through the iPAQ to the car stereo using bluetooth! Completely wireless! HP’s FA303A Bluetooth stereo headset gets slaughtered to get a Bluetooth stereo receiver, then we follow the principal of trial and error and hope that nothing burns before we get the receiver into its box with a 12v power supply and into the car. And when you have the box ready then you can use it anywhere your imagination takes you. In the car, by the stereo at home or at a friends house, or you can connect it to a high quality headphone! You will definetly loose your warranty on the headset on this one! |
 Dan lives in Saudi Arabia and getting a good sector panel antenna there is not easy due to the import restriction. After spending numerous months on the net trying to find a good DIY about building one himself, he found some pages about the Franklin Array design. Using this as his starting point he finally developed a 2.4 GHz 14 dBi sector panel that he was satisfied with and he has been kind enough to share his findings with us in a nice six page article. |
 Dan wanted a true outside enclosure for his Wi-Lan equipment that could withstand the forces of nature where he lives. He writes:
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 Some time ago we wrote about the Wireless Skype Phone project and I remember someone mentioning to me that it would be so much more convienent to use a bluetooth headset. And I do agree with this as long as you sit by your computer or within the range of the bluetooth antenna (which by the way is up to a maximum of 10m). If not – then the Wireless Skype Phone still kicks ass. So here I present you with two links utilizing a bluetooth headset with Skype. Treonauts.com is a Palm Treo oriented website and Andrew shows you a step-by-step on how he did it. A thread at forum.skype.com with the subject “This is how to make a Bluetooth headset work with XP SP2” also has a lot of pointers on how to do this and is more general then the Treo article |
 Ever wanted to put a laptop in the living room, but the misses didn’t allow it? Have a laptop over and the guts to take it apart? Then this DIY article is something for you. I will take you step by step though the process of converting an laptop into a WallTop to hang next to your other pictures. Making use of wireless takes away the cable problem, and with no hard drive makes it completely quiet. You need a laptop and picture frame and -the guts to do it-!!! |
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