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Home-made WiFi-enabled BoomBox sniffs hotspots, streams online radio stations

Wireless boombox streams audio

From "Web Radio Boom Box," by isnoop, 23 February:

"For the past few months, I've been working on a web radio boom box. I've hollowed out a perfectly good radio and made room for a tiny motherboard and power supply that are set up to run Damn Small Linux off of a USB flash drive. There is a wireless card inside, and the box is configured to sniff out wireless networks and automatically start streaming web radio on any friendly Wi-fi network... I fully expect to install a small audio amplifier to drive the speakers that go with the stereo, but sound quality is still very tinny..."

[WiFi: 2 March 2006]

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