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Smallest WiFi repeater / Kortex Xtend Lite /

A tiny, easy to use, hackable, battery-powered, multipurpose wireless repeater

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Kortex Xtend Lite is a small cheap, battery-powered multipurpose WiFi repeater that includes a full variety of features and functionalities suitable for any type of project or setup that needs WiFi.It’s intended for those interested in developing fast/easy solutions for IoT applications, WiFi extenders, ethical hacking, network security, packet sniffing, WiFi speed tests, and so on. It’s based on an ESP8266-07S WiFi module at 80Mhz. It has 2 free GPIO pads (GPIO14 and GPIO13) to configure multiple functions (*see Configuration). It has an MCP2221A USB to UART converter and an AP2112 3.3V LDO that outputs up to 600mA of current suitable for powering the ESP8266-07S and all the other components. The board has an integrated MCP73831 battery management and charging controller along with a status red led that indicates when the battery is charging. There's also a switch that allows you to turn on and o

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What you can do with it (just some ideas....)

Guests at home: Your friends are visiting you at home? No problem, just setup your Kortex Xtend Lite as a free open WiFi access point and let your friends connect without them knowing your WiFi password.

Deploy a WiFi drone: You can take your WiFi connectivity to the air by simply attaching your Kortex Xtend Lite to a drone. You can use it for allowing IoT sensors located at a high altitude to connect to the internet in order to upload the recorded data to a server (e.g: temperature, humidity, pressure).

Scan AP's with a drone: You can also use it to scan your neighborhood access points by simply flying your drone near the place you want to get info from. Imagine you want to hack your angry neighbor WiFi (just kidding... don't do it), but your computer doesn't detect the AP due to the large distance between your home and the AP you want to scan. The solution would be flying your drone with the attached repeater, and from your computer (already connected to the repeater attached to the drone) running "snet" command in order to get the access point name, ip address and mac address. 

Your drone should be on air at least 15min. If the drone moves to too far from the AP, you could fail at sending commands, and also while receiving data. Remember that this repeater only provides information about the network (and of course other great features), and it cannot do things a computer does, so when I say hacking, that means from your computer, the repeater is only a little "spy"

Protect your connected devices: The advantage of using this NAT repeater is the IP masquerading feature that protects your devices (computer, IoT sensors, etc...) identity by implementing a network address translation procedure that gives your devices a unique private IP address hidden behind a single public IP address (repeater IP address), so you can keep a bunch of devices hidden from hackers.

Deploy aerial WiFi zones with drones (mesh) *not tested yet: Do you want to provide WiFi to a large area? That's possible if you can get a bunch of drones and attach to them another bunch of Kortex Xtend Lite repeaters set to "mesh" mode. If you fly the drones, automatically the repeaters will form a mesh network and you'll be able to provide WiFi connectivity to your clients (IoT sensors, neighbours, etc....). Remember that many factors like trees, houses, weather and distance can cause WiFi bandwidth to go down, and eventually, if you increase the number of repeaters (up to 8) the available bandwidth will almost disappear, so please keep that in mind :)

Capture data from connected clients: In order of being able to capture connected clients data, firstly you must set the repeater as an open WiFi access point (see *commands list, documentation and tutorials - up)

Once you make sure someone is connected to your Kortex Xtend Lite (by running "show" command) from your console or Telnet terminal start a monitor service by running "monitor on [portno]"

This service mirrors the traffic of the internal network in PCAP format into a TCP stream. With a "netcat [external_ip_of_the_repeater] [portno] | sudo wireshark -k -S -i -" from a computer in the external network you can now observe the traffic in the internal network in real time. Use this  to observe with which internet sites your clients are communicating. 

Technical Data

On the bottom side, there’s a reset button for restarting the ESP8266, and an IPEX cable that connects the SMA connector to the ESP8266 in order to maximize transmission range.

Comes fully assembled and tested, with the firmware uploaded...

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Matt Hallacy wrote 06/09/2019 at 03:29 point

This project seems to have a larger feature set in a smaller package:

https://github.com/martin-ger/esp_wifi_repeater

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fabian wrote 09/22/2018 at 20:24 point

How long this device working on AA ?

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Neon22 wrote 08/18/2018 at 23:28 point

Looking forward to this being on (I guess) Tindie ?
Nice board. My use would be as an IOT backbone and wifi mesh along a river with Solar charging.

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Amine Mehdi Mansouri wrote 08/19/2018 at 21:36 point

Hi Neon22!

You can get one on Kickstarter: http://kck.st/2Mo4iym

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