{"id":1655,"date":"2009-04-06T08:20:08","date_gmt":"2009-04-06T15:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1655"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:08","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:08","slug":"video-hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/video-hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt\/","title":{"rendered":"Video: Hacking the ASUS router for the Tweet-a-Watt"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/tweet-a-watt-uses-wl-520gu-for-data-acquisition\/\">last week<\/a>, Adafruit Industries is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.adafruit.com\/blog\/2009\/04\/04\/hacking-the-asus-router-for-the-tweet-a-watt\/\">hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Their hack is based on the work I did to create my <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/wifiradio\/\">Wifi Radio project<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Check out the video below to learn more about their cool hack!<\/p>\n<p><object width=\"500\" height=\"375\" data=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/g4Fg+IBvhq8E%2Em4v\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/blip.tv\/play\/g4Fg+IBvhq8E%2Em4v\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I mentioned last week, Adafruit Industries is hacking the Asus WL-520gU wireless router to talk to the Tweet-a-Watt. Their hack is based on the work I did to create my Wifi Radio project. Check out the video below to learn more about their cool hack!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[5,10],"tags":[198,68,162,73,123,197],"class_list":["post-1655","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-electronics","category-microcontrollers","tag-adafruit","tag-openwrt","tag-wifiradio","tag-wireless","tag-wl-520gu","tag-xbee"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-qH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":1630,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/tweet-a-watt-uses-wl-520gu-for-data-acquisition\/","url_meta":{"origin":1655,"position":0},"title":"Tweet-a-watt uses WL-520gU for Data Acquisition","author":"Jeff","date":"March 31, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Ladyada of Adafruit Industries created the Tweet-a-Watt to monitor energy usage in her apartment. Each Tweet-a-Watt device contains some power monitoring electronics and an Xbee module.\u00a0 The Xbee modules relay energy usage data for each Tweet-a-Watt back to a single receiver, which collects the data. In staying with the overall\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/3318289854_a80e2ea6e4.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1938,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/wl-520gu-for-3499-after-rebate-neweggcom\/","url_meta":{"origin":1655,"position":1},"title":"WL-520gU for $34.99 after rebate @ Newegg.com","author":"Jeff","date":"June 3, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Newegg.com is currently offering the Asus WL-520gU for $34.99 after rebate. This is the lowest price I have seen in a while, so if you've been debating picking one of these up to play with, it might be a good time to buy. The WL-520gU is the very hackable wireless\u2026","rel":"","context":"In \"Asus\"","block_context":{"text":"Asus","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/tag\/asus\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"http:\/\/www.ftjcfx.com\/image-3238164-10440897","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":470,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/detailed-specs-for-the-asus-wl-520gu-uber-hacking-platform\/","url_meta":{"origin":1655,"position":2},"title":"Detailed specs for the Asus WL-520GU uber hacking platform","author":"Jeff","date":"October 27, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"In my previous post about the Wifi Radio project I'm working on, I concluded that the Asus WL-520GU wireless router was the perfect choice for an embedded wireless platform, thanks to its builtin 802.11g WiFi, Linux support, and extremely low cost. (In fact, the price after rebate has dropped since\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Projects&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Projects","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/projects-2\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"Asus WL-520GU Wireless Router","src":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/mightyohm.com\/files\/flickr\/2950279643_374493fa81.jpg?resize=350%2C200","width":350,"height":200},"classes":[]},{"id":1389,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/03\/looking-for-asus-wl-520gu-wireless-router-hacks\/","url_meta":{"origin":1655,"position":3},"title":"Looking for Asus WL-520gU Wireless Router Hacks","author":"Jeff","date":"March 12, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"Have you created a project or hack based on the Asus WL-520gU or WL-500gP Wireless Routers? It doesn't matter if it was inspired by my project or developed independently - I'd love to hear from you! I'm putting together a talk for NOTACON and I'd like to feature as many\u2026","rel":"","context":"In &quot;Electronics&quot;","block_context":{"text":"Electronics","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/category\/electronics\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":480,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2008\/10\/building-a-wifi-radio-part-3-hacking-the-asus-wl-520gu\/","url_meta":{"origin":1655,"position":4},"title":"Building a Wifi Radio &#8211; Part 3, Hacking the Asus WL-520GU","author":"Jeff","date":"October 30, 2008","format":false,"excerpt":"This is the third part of an ongoing series about building a low cost, open source streaming internet radio.\u00a0 If you haven\u2019t already, check out part one and part two for some background about the project. 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