Oh that is really cool! I'll have to keep an eye out for something like that in the future. About a year ago I took an old internet radio apart just to find that they had made things easy for themselves and used a standard USB wifi dongle with the case stripped off. I still have it but I recall it was an unsatisfying salvage as I merely unplugged it! LOL Thanks for sharing this!
Why not a 2.2k ohm resistor that would drop it to 2.8 or is that too much? It looks like you could fit a surface mount in between the plug and the board.
@@backofficeshow that would've been perfect and I tend to do the same thing myself either way it's a great way to reuse something that would've been binned otherwise.
Yeah it's awesome to try something you would have otherwise binned. People need to experiment more, in this case, we have nothing to lose 😁 I might have another go mounting it on a Vero board. Seems nice to finish this little project
Oh that is really cool! I'll have to keep an eye out for something like that in the future.
About a year ago I took an old internet radio apart just to find that they had made things easy for themselves and used a standard USB wifi dongle with the case stripped off.
I still have it but I recall it was an unsatisfying salvage as I merely unplugged it! LOL
Thanks for sharing this!
It's a beauty! Does it work on tablet devices with OTG cable?
I wonder why not use a couple of resistors in parallel to lower the voltage?
Just use a Zener diode
You're funny with the swapping the diodes out for surface mount later. If it's temporary and it works it isn't temporary
I really think I need to change its form factor 😁
@@backofficeshow I believe the RTL8188eu chipset is also the one they use in all of the $0.99 USB wifi dongles hehe :)
Oh cool. Nice!
Why not a 2.2k ohm resistor that would drop it to 2.8 or is that too much? It looks like you could fit a surface mount in between the plug and the board.
I usually use what I have lying around 😂 I'm surprised the module was tolerant. I thinking the best approach would have been a small linear regulator
@@backofficeshow that would've been perfect and I tend to do the same thing myself either way it's a great way to reuse something that would've been binned otherwise.
Yeah it's awesome to try something you would have otherwise binned. People need to experiment more, in this case, we have nothing to lose 😁
I might have another go mounting it on a Vero board. Seems nice to finish this little project
@@backofficeshow hopefully that will also be a video I enjoy them all and love recycling things and watching other people do the same
I will make sure I make a video recycling something is up tomorrow, look out for it 😂
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Lovely project.pls can I connect an old phone camera to WiFi chip recovered from an old laptop ?And if I can,pls how do I do that.10Q.
I think you would really struggle with it there are simpler ways to achieve this.
@@backofficeshow Ook,thanks.And please how do I do that?And pls,if u hv a video tutorials on that,pls share it.10Q
great ii have an old tab that is broke and im gonna try it also thank you and have a hack of a weekend
I hope you find good things inside! 🤞
backofficeshow thank you Sir
You were right, Wi-Fi only chip :)
It sometimes happens 😂
@@backofficeshow can we attach dongle to the wifi card
It's a wifi kite! Bloody hell!
Ha ha, I knew it looked like something but could not quite place it! Well spotted!!!
@@backofficeshow why not just use a damn 3v3 zener from 5v to gnd?
I use what I have lying around, you know the rules
Its almost art!
Perhaps a bit of brightly colored cellophane in the open space ;)
what is that?????? and I want a sausage now!!!!!
A WiFi module I pulled from a tablet. Mmm sausages
I was going to comment on how good they looked, but then thought better
Another video suggests using a 3.3V regulator. Others might want to give this video a view too: ua-cam.com/video/DvOmvsf5i6o/v-deo.html
fluxx helps alot