Altoids-point

Altoids-point, Wifi repeater And VPN gateway

Rune Kyndal

Following Follow project

Liked Like project

Become a Hackaday.io member

Just one more thing

To make the experience fit your profile, pick a username and tell us what interests you.

OK, I'm done! Skip

Similar projects worth following

1.1k views

0 comments

6 followers

7 likes

Description
Details
Files 0
Components 0
Logs 1
- View all
Instructions 0
Discussion 0

View Gallery

Description

I Travel for work, and spend Alot of my time in hotel rooms,
where the Wifi usually have a captive portal that need some sort of interaction,
room number, passcode, member id, etc.

to make the time pass, I bring tinker projects, a-lot of ESP-8266 and ESP-32 devices

and to program for them, and have them get online with the above captive portal
just seems harder than what its worth.

so I connect up My Altoids-Point to the hotel Wifi. do the login thing from a phone or laptop.
and from there on it remains connected. while distributing its own Wifi "ALTOIDS" ofcourse
which the ESP's are quite happy to use.

additionally I route the traffic to my VPN server at home.
and they are thus on my internal home network. making things much simpler

it also works without power connected at the coffe shop, running from the internal battery

The antenna unscrews, and packs neatly inside the case,

Why an Altoids tin? haha. Your must be new here..

Details

Hardware

Ralink RA5350 SOC (recovered from an old SRICAM AP-009 IP Camera)
1x MIPS-32 core @ 360MHz
32mb RAM
8mb Flash

USB Lithium charger
DC-DC boost converter
Li-Po Battery's 3x 1100mAh (when they where new)

Software

OpenWrt 19.07.2
Travelmate plugin
OpenVPN

Performance

Speed tested around 13 Mbps Down & 8 Mbps Up (without VPN)
Speed tested around 3 Mbps Down & 2 Mbps Up (with VPN its a bit CPU limited...)

General use, Streaming, surfing gives in excess of 5 Hrs on the Internal Battery

Project Logs

Collapse

the black box
Rune Kyndal • 06/11/2020 at 23:46 • 0 comments

For those wanting a more Stealthy and less Altoids look... (I know right?.....Anyway here you go..)

All the same stuff, just in a shiny black box. no external plugs, switches or lights showing.
easy pop On/Off lid for access

the laptop antenna on top of the batteries. will not have the best performance especially when
compared to an external one.

i think the the box was cheaper?, or it had free shipping when i picked them up?.
anyway. they are super awesome.. as they perfectly fit 3x 18650's
with just enough room for an ESP, or well an Altoids-point i guess.

https://www.banggood.com/id/Waterproof-Black-Plastic-Power-Supply-Box-Enclosure-Instrument-Case-p-942501.html?cur_warehouse=CN