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Arduinoponics with OpenWRT

I updated my GitHub repo: http://github.com/nemik/arduinoponics with code I wrote for the OpenWRT firmware (version 8.09.1). It provides an AJAXy-updating page to OpenWRT’s Luci web-interface which displays the analog pin values from the Arduino which the Arduinoponics sketch runs on.
Here is a screenshot, notice the extra ‘Sensors’ link on the top right to access the [...]

OpenMoko and Wifi Ad-Hoc mode

So i decided to give making-openmoko-a-wifi-AP thing another go.
The USB wifi card I bought (ChiefMax RaLink RT73) needs some special cross-compiled drivers to put the wifi in master mode in order to act as an AP. So i gave up that route and tried making it an ad-hoc peer-to-peer access point.
This (kinda) worked! but only [...]

Cracked up laughing

I love this, thank you Engadget for the laugh of the day!