Two Quicky Directional Wifi Antennas

These are just a couple of wifi antennas I cooked up real quick.

If you are interested in antennas, check this one out: https://www.instructables.com/id/Foil-based-fractal-antenna/

Downloads

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Parts Needed

Usb wifi adapter.
Usb extension cable.
Plastic salad bow.
2 coat hangers
Foil.
Tape.
Large parabolic screen from children's toy.

Tools.
Drill
Wire cutters

Parabolic Antenna Prep

Take parabolic screen and use wire cutters to make a hole for the usb wfi adapter to fit.
Insert wifi adapter.
Lay unit face down for a minute.

Finish Parabolic Screen.

Bend coat hanger to make stand for antenna
Insert stand into parabolic screen.
Done.

Salad Bowl Antenna

Drill hole in salad bowl to fit usb wifi adapter.
Surround bowl with foil.
Tape down.
Insert wifi adapter.
Lay bowl face down fior a minute.

Mount

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Bend coat hanger to fit.

Finish Salad Bowl Antenna

Bend coat hanger to support bowl.
Put bowl in stand.
done.

Hope you enjoy these directional wifi antennas.

Mount It.

We decided to take a previous project and modify it for this project. Never ending uses for tripods.

Home Made Parabola?

I had been thinking about solar cookers when I found this small picture of a parabola form. Seemed unusable at first. So using a image viewer, I enlarged the picture and then printed out. After that I then cut around the splines with scissors. I taped it up. A parabola it is.

Then comes the fun part. I printed out a second form and then glued aluminium foil to the form. Let that dry. then used the scissors to cut around the form again. Looking more interesting. Then I taped up the spines together to get an aluminium foil parabola. Now I am working on an even larger version. Awsome!

More Precise Parabola,

Article that is about experimenting with parabolas.

http://computoman.blogspot.com/2014/08/parabolas-revisited.html