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TrackerFFtoday at 9:50 AM1 replyview on HN

Cool project. I was going to say, the end resulting light should be a pretty saturated spectrum, given that many RF sources just keep pumping out waves, and the those waves propagating and bouncing around.

I think one fun application would be a light which represents your wi-fi strength around the house. Obviously in a smaller apartment that's really not a problem, but in larger houses it would be fun to see.

Another application would be to find hidden RF sources / leaks. I have a home recording studio, and for the life I could not find some RF source that kept adding noise / interference. I could roughly detect the frequency of the noise, but not its origin. I guess if I had a couple of RF sensors I could try to triangulate my way to it.


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tzvctoday at 10:54 AM

Yes, in the parisian apt. where I filmed the RF landscape is wild

But tuning in to the specific wifi channel you router use you could even use this piece as a signal strenght plotter!

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