{"id":1944,"date":"2009-06-04T08:37:21","date_gmt":"2009-06-04T15:37:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/?p=1944"},"modified":"2015-09-26T11:11:06","modified_gmt":"2015-09-26T18:11:06","slug":"asus-wireless-router-takes-to-the-high-seas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/asus-wireless-router-takes-to-the-high-seas\/","title":{"rendered":"Asus Wireless Router Takes to the High Seas"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><object width=\"480\" height=\"385\" data=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bFdPrDE5JMU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" type=\"application\/x-shockwave-flash\"><param name=\"allowFullScreen\" value=\"true\" \/><param name=\"allowscriptaccess\" value=\"always\" \/><param name=\"src\" value=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/v\/bFdPrDE5JMU&amp;hl=en&amp;fs=1&amp;rel=0\" \/><param name=\"allowfullscreen\" value=\"true\" \/><\/object><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/\">Madox<\/a> is building something he calls the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-1\/\">MFC<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/05\/24\/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-1\/\">Madox Floating Camera<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Presently, it consists of an <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/wl-520gu-for-3499-after-rebate-neweggcom\/\">Asus WL-520gU<\/a> wireless router mounted in a waterproof box along with batteries, a relay control board, and four large bilge pumps for propulsion.\u00a0 He plans to add a camera so he can take his contraption to the <a onclick=\"javascript:pageTracker._trackPageview('\/outbound\/article\/http:\/\/www.ausbg.org\/');\" href=\"http:\/\/www.ausbg.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Australian Battle Group<\/a> meet in June where he &#8220;hopes to film the ships shooting each another to smithereens&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>His latest post includes a video (above) of the propulsion system <a href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-2\/\">being tested in his bathtub<\/a>.\u00a0 I can&#8217;t wait to see some larger scale tests, it looks like this rig is capable of some serious speed!<\/p>\n<p class=\"posttitle\"><a title=\"Permanent Link: MFC - Madox Floating Camera - Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-2\/\">MFC &#8211; Madox Floating Camera &#8211; Part 2<\/a> (via the <a href=\"http:\/\/mightyohm.com\/forum\/viewtopic.php?f=2&amp;t=32\">forums<\/a>)<a title=\"Permanent Link: MFC - Madox Floating Camera - Part 2\" rel=\"bookmark\" href=\"http:\/\/www.madox.net\/blog\/2009\/06\/05\/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-2\/\"><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madox is building something he calls the MFC or Madox Floating Camera. Presently, it consists of an Asus WL-520gU wireless router mounted in a waterproof box along with batteries, a relay control board, and four large bilge pumps for propulsion.\u00a0 He plans to add a camera so he can take his contraption to the Australian &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/asus-wireless-router-takes-to-the-high-seas\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Asus Wireless Router Takes to the High Seas<\/span> <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/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":[443],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-1944","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-projects-2","tag-wl-520gu"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pioCd-vm","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2010,"url":"https:\/\/mightyohm.com\/blog\/2009\/06\/first-open-water-test-of-the-mfc\/","url_meta":{"origin":1944,"position":0},"title":"First open water test of the MFC","author":"Jeff","date":"June 19, 2009","format":false,"excerpt":"A couple weeks ago, I posted about Madox, who created a floating camera platform based on an Asus WL-520gU wireless router and called it the Madox Floating Camera, or MFC. 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