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The US Globalsat BU-353 is the only one I'd recommend, if something has gpsd it will work

The thing is 1980's cell phones were solving a common problem of being in contact with people while not at home. The push to integrate more features, was more of an incremental thing, stemming from what users were doing, i.e. text based subscription services for sports news. That "data service" was largely killed when phone manufacturers embraced WAP and very basic browsers, which were seen by the manufacturers as being a wanted feature, based on the use of data services. Hell I remember using the IR from my Sony Clie to connect to my Nokia 8210 and dial my then ISP freeserve to get email over gsm. Drones solve a problem, which really isn't an everyday problem, that is the need to kill and/spy on people and later on search and rescue. They do those things very well, but they don't beat PIR sensors and cameras at a personal level, well not unless you have one with a molten salt reactor and thermal imaging camera, flying above you 24/7, with some sexy optics. If drones are something that works for you, great.

GPS on its own is not ideal for drones, that's why most people use a base station as a fixed (at the time of take off) position. I don't have much interest in remote control, aircraft that are little more than a cheap RC unit, a camera and an gyroscope to keep it stable. The reason you make you own is to give the drone some level of intelligence.

I will say i'm not buying the idea of drones flying about delivering packages, but I don't see the need for a delivery driver, so driverless vans with computer generated routes and smart storage systems, that text your phone to say they are outside is something I can see happening. There is always a lot of hype around new technology, that comes to the consumer market.

I've seen it, a fancy camera platform, is still a camera platform. The use for something like that would be searching buildings. Drones are cool, I like them but I'm realistic about their use. Fire and mountain recuse are two great uses for them, I'm still not convinced on the personal everyman use, bit like 3D printers and I own one of those too lol. Fun toys which have limited use, but still fun and somewhat useful for a very limited section of things

Could just get the phone to connect to your base station and then send a continues stream of text to it, then just listen for it, or look for the person pissed off with their phone.

The forum and the show are two different things, the show is the whim of the hosts and production team. You may find that they will start something on here, but will not get much interest past, oh that's cool. RC stuff is an expensive hobby, and has limited use. Developing a community around an expensive hobby takes years, its not like you just have the stuff laying around the house like a laptop, or can pick it up for under $15 like a soldering iron.

I've built a few for shits and giggles, but their a fun toy but not really useful for anything other than a camera platform. There are lots of fine sites on the interwebs like diydrones, only advice I'd give people is, weigh all the shit you want to stick on it before you think about ordering motors/plus keep in mind the weight of batteries, and 3D printing the arms is fine for small quads, but they break really quickly when scaled up.

You can get DECT cards, Com-on-Air is probably the best known company, also the cheapest (sub £20). You would need a 2.4GHz one and a second 900MHz, then have that talk to a PBX. This would allow you to just use the handsets. If you just want to get them up and running on VoIP, you can get Linksys PAP2T-NA, which allow your phone's, base station and all to be used for VoIP.

Built in fractal antenna most the time, if I'm mobile and need range in towns and villages directional patch, in cities and I need range helical, cities just shitting about cloverleaf. Need to cover an area sector antennas, point to point parabolic and if I need something cheap, easy and reliable to make, biquad or slotted wave guide. Fractal are fairly easy to make to be fair if you have access to a etching equipment or a small cnc machine.

That would probably be not notice by airport security, lots of airlines only allow tools in hold luggage, which is a pain in the arse.

My work bag is fairly boring just a high spec MacBook Pro, a few pens, my ID, and the company phone and car keys. This is my personal bag at the moment. The bag all this crap fits into is a Lowepro Classified 250 AW and in it currently: I don't always have the PICKIT 3 with me or the USB logic analyzer and the meter gets swapped out for one of my other Flukes, if I'm playing with HV or need a data connection for logging.

Just looks like a 5.11 Push Pack or Maxpedition Versipack both of which are better made, although I'm not a fan of the man purse.

People have been spoofing GPS for years, its a fine way to get yourself arrested in the UK, lol

I have a ThinkPad x201 as my going to con's/hackday's/tech related shit days. Their fairly cheap used, small and have a solid spec for running anything you could want. Mine has the i5 with 8GB of ram and a 256GB Samsung SSD. Boots in seconds and lasts a whole day on the battery. Built like a tank :) I use Coreboot and FreeBSD on mine.

Cars are 433Mhz in the UK which is in the range of those cheap SDR, NFC is 13.56 which is not unless you are using an up-converter, RFID as a generalisation is 125KHz or 13.56MHz, with 125KHz used really heavily in door entry systems. Less commonly you have some used for warehouse product tracking in the late 800MHz's in Europe and early 900MHz's in the US.

This http://lists.pfsense.org/pipermail/dev/2014-March/000537.html unless they have resolved the issue

Linux is basically Linux, some just have more support out the box. Most security researchers I know use MacBook Pro's with a range of VM's. Hackers use whatever they can get their hands on.

pfsense is a great product, but they have kind of fucked over the community.

You're better off with an omnidirectional antenna, unless you are trying to do point to point, there are quite a few good and cheap 2.4GHz clover leaf antennas on ebay, they will improve your range and as their circular polarized they are ideal in built up areas.

A very long time ago I was Metatron and I spent many hours here and even helped sort out meetings in person. Nice to see the place is still going too.

Bluelog and Bluez both work on OpenWRT, I don't think Aircrack-ng was designed for Bluetooth.

I've not really gotten into the whole wearable tech thing, don't get me wrong I love my snowboarding jacket, which has ipod controls in the arm and a headphone jack in the collar but, watches... I guess if you have a massive phone, that is so big it needs to be carried in a backpack or special bag like the 80's, then sure

No real money in it. Its easy enough to do with a captive portal and RADIUS server and use paypal to run cards/payments. You would most likely breach your agreement with the ISP.

I don't know of anything like that, there were a few standalone Bluetooth AP on the market but they were fairly shitty and are no loner being made, I use to have a few Siemens Blue2net but gave the last one to Noisebridge, they used embedded Linux and came with all the source code. Your best bet is to get something like a cheap Linksys WRT160NL as its the Linux version of one of their newer n routers and has USB support.