Hacking A USB Port Onto An Old Router

Sometimes hacks don’t must be progressive to be satisfying. We thought that [daffy]’s directions and video (embedded beneath the break) for turning an old WRT54G router into an Internet radio have been value a glance even when he’s following a well-traveled path and one which we’ve reported on way back when.

The hack itself is straightforward. [daffy] locates unused USB information traces, provides in a 5V voltage regulator to provide USB bus energy, after which connects all of it to a USB sound card. Hardware aspect, executed! And whereas he doesn’t cowl the software program aspect of issues on this first video, we all know the place he’s headed.

The WRT54G router was the primary commodity Linux-based router to be extensively hacked, and have open-source firmware written for it. If you’re utilizing OpenWRT or dd-wrt on any of your gadgets, you owe a debt to the early rootability of the WRT54G. Anyway, it’s a very good guess that [daffy] goes to search out software program help for his USB sound card, however we stay in suspense to see simply precisely how the main points pan out.

Our favourite WRT54G hack continues to be an oldie: turning a WRT54G into the brains for a robot. But that was eight years in the past now, so certainly there’s one thing newer and shinier. What’s the good system that you simply’ve seen a WRT router hacked into?