[plug] Wanted: dirt cheap wireless LAN

[Simon Newton]

This may be what your after:

http://www.altronics.com.au/cat.asp?cat=11&grp=424&id=K2860

Its only $22 per end + 2 laser pointers and looks pretty simple to
build.

I'm not sure of the legalities of shining lasers across the suburbs
though :)

Simon N


On Thu, 2003-01-02 at 20:17, bob wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Jan 2003 07:49 pm, Leon Brooks wrote:
> > On Thursday 02 January 2003 06:54 pm, bob wrote:
> > > Hmm... I'm sure I've sent you this link before... Deja vu man :)
> >
> > Yes, that's why I mentioned (90 minutes before your post) that:
> >
> >     The Ronja Metropolis, fancy as it is, is too complicated.
> 
> Seem to have missed that post, wonder where it got to?
> 
> > I'm currently thinking along the lines of something very simple. A FET
> > op-amp feeding a Schmitt to buffer the reciever and a simple
> > emitter-follower to run the transmitter LED via a serial (RS232) port.
> > Even if I only get 38400bps at that range, it will fulfill the
> > requirement `at least as fast as a modem'. And who knows, I might even
> > get 115200 bps for as few as 11 components plus lenses, tubes and
> > mounting. I can't see anywhere that this has been done before, but it
> > seems an obvious approach to me.
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