AFAIK the Atheros 802.11n wireless chipsets not only have great drivers in the Linux kernel, they don't need firmware blobs. Definitely worth keeping. As for the product discontinuation, it certainly sucks. Apparently they started sending out firmware updates to brick them even if you got the third-party server working.

Those are 2 Gb - gigabit ram chips, so 256MB and 1GB in total ;)

Neat tear down. I got few mysterious boxes I should tear down and lookie

MAKE a coffee table and embed it in resin, along with other boards.

Much more interesting than the tons of cisco set top boxes i have lying around. The card is on a mini-pcie slot. 😊 The RAM is 8 Gigabits, or 1 Gibibytes. The inductors for the ethernet port are galvanic isolators. Some modern rj45 ports have them built in to the port housing.

@309electronics5

Ай бұрын

Yeah i have not seen much Linux powered stbs that had wifi cards in pci form

take the memory and make your own flash drive!

4:28 That's an mPCIe (Mini PCI Express). mSATA also used this keying but otherwise it's mostly used for WWAN cards. As far as I know lol...

My XP laptop uses one of those WiFi cards. LOL. Some useful IC's if you were willing to put the time and effort into removing them. (I would'nt be bothered either. ha ha) BTW, I enjoyed your chat with Dan yesterday.

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

I had fun doing that podcast. Glad you enjoyed it.

"not much to salvage" often thats the case with most (embedded) devices. They put most of the functionality in the linux based os which allows them to easily add/tweak features and yep sadly make the device obsolete. The wifi card might be salvageable and the fan too. Maybe some ports and ir can be used to practice smd soldering. I have a lot of softbricked settopboxes that i or the manufacturer bricked and use it for smd practice

The Wi-Fi card might be mini pcie. Used in older laptops for wifi.

@WanderingCactus

Ай бұрын

There's a video on here of someone taking one out of a Linksys router and trying to use it on a computer, and running into driver problems, hopefully @pileofstuff has an easier time

What is the 3rd antenna solder pad ment to be for?

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

Can you post a timestamp? I don't remember seeing more than the 2 WIFI antennas.

@mihumono

Ай бұрын

Same pcb for chips with 3 stream MIMO?

what a coincidence i just came into possession of a slingbox model sb240. i was hoping it was some kind of network music streaming device. While i guess it could be i dont have the knowledge on how to make that happen lol Any ideas on alternative usecases? or components i should look for if i decide to tear it apart? i love tech and tinkering but i dont really have the knowledge to build anything so ive been saving stuff for years for when i do decide to find out how to educate myself.

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

as far as I have learned, due to how locked down the software that runs it is, there is little chance it can be used for anything else.

@LikelyLagging

Ай бұрын

@@pileofstuff unfortunate. Super glad I found your channel though. Content is great exactly the kind of stuff I’m interested in. Idk how I never thought to look for channels like this. Cheers 🤘🏼

@pileofstuff

Ай бұрын

@@LikelyLagging Glad to have you here!

I'll have it !!! Do you know anyone flying to Australia? lol You're never locked out. You just have to snoop around till you find A door. I'm sure you know the drill... If not, send 7 Canadian Rupees, in a self addressed envelope.

Today we use vpn. Does the same thing.

@alanpatterson2384

Ай бұрын

Not quite: you need some way of controlling your video source .