Homebrew turns WLANs into music

Posted Dec 18th 2007 8:00PM by Candace Savino
Filed under: Homebrew

Last week we told you about the Swiss group "and-or" and their innovative homebrew game, Wardive. As it turns out, they have another interesting homebrew application called Sniff Jazzbox. Instead of turning wireless signals into enemies, though, it turns them into musical notes (or rather, it turns the names of the hot spots it picks up into musical notes). In a sense, it allows you to hear what your environment sounds like.

Sniff Jazzbox definitely can't be considered a game, and the music it produces is just a bunch of notes jumbled together, but we like how and-or is integrating adaptable wireless aspects into their programs. See an example of how the app works here.

Tags: and-or, music, sniff-jazzbox, wi-fi, wireless

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12-19-2007 @ 12:15AM

gevenstaines said...

"Sniff Jazzbox definitely can't be considered and game," did u mean 'a game'?

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