Router... er, modification

A google search on "router hacking" gives all sorts of links on how to
increase transmitter power, etc., but how would one go about
converting a (Linksys, say) off-the-shelf router into a device that
can, say, calculate pi or solve a complex partial differential
equation?

The idea is to basically convert a cheap, low-power (in wattage),
fairly powerful off-the-shelf piece of electronics to something that
would normally take $100s or so in microcontroller development boards
to perform.

Michael

 

On Sep 10, 1:30 pm, mrdarr...@gmail.com wrote:

A google search on "router hacking" gives all sorts of links on how to
increase transmitter power, etc., but how would one go about
converting a (Linksys, say) off-the-shelf router into a device that
can, say, calculate pi or solve a complex partial differential
equation?

The idea is to basically convert a cheap, low-power (in wattage),
fairly powerful off-the-shelf piece of electronics to something that
would normally take $100s or so in microcontroller development boards
to perform.

Michael

Never mind... this comes really close:
http://www.linuxjournal.com/article/7322

M

 

[Jasen Betts]

On 2007-09-10, mrdarrett@gmail.com <mrdarrett@gmail.com> wrote:

A google search on "router hacking" gives all sorts of links on how to
increase transmitter power, etc., but how would one go about
converting a (Linksys, say) off-the-shelf router into a device that
can, say, calculate pi or solve a complex partial differential
equation?

get a linksys WRT54GL and flash it with a custom linux and pi-calculating
program. if you need more computing power maybe a playstation 2 or 3
instead.

add "WRT54GL" or "linux" to your searches.

Bye.
Jasen

 

On Sep 12, 12:27 am, Jasen Betts <ja...@free.net.nz> wrote:

On 2007-09-10, mrdarr...@gmail.com <mrdarr...@gmail.com> wrote:

A google search on "router hacking" gives all sorts of links on how to
increase transmitter power, etc., but how would one go about
converting a (Linksys, say) off-the-shelf router into a device that
can, say, calculate pi or solve a complex partial differential
equation?

get a linksys WRT54GL and flash it with a custom linux and pi-calculating
program. if you need more computing power maybe a playstation 2 or 3
instead.

add "WRT54GL" or "linux" to your searches.

Bye.
Jasen

Thanks!