Franklin López on Nostr: My newest creation: the Pickle Repeater. It’s made from a Seeed Studio Companion ...
My newest creation: the Pickle Repeater.
It’s made from a Seeed Studio Companion — the cheapest one I could find, about $25 USD — a battery I got for free from AliExpress, and an empty plastic pickle jar.
The battery has a little solar panel built into it, so I’m testing how long this ridiculous contraption can keep running.
I think the battery normally goes for around $20 on AliExpress. So if this works, and I can make a casing that lets enough light in to charge the solar panel while also being waterproof and weatherproof, then we might have a pretty cheap no-solder repeater for people who don’t own soldering tools or just don’t want to fuck around with that shit.
Right now it’s mounted on a pool-cleaning pole I found in the garbage, because of course it is.
So far, it fucking works. I’ve been able to chat with people hundreds of kilometres away.
More pickle-based telecommunications research to come.
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