[ale] OT: To catch a thief

[H P Ladds]

How about:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/10922 and a USB 4g modem.
Place these inside an old laptop. They should fit into a phony cd/dvd drive.

Tie into the lappy's power and USB bus, then stream/send the GPS ascii
output somewhere useful.

Of course, I've busted the budget, and battery-life is a problem, but
it's the biggest battery that I think a crook would willingly steal
and carry with him/her.

I wonder if you could save power by side-stepping the computer's
internals altogether. Replace them with a Raspberry Pi -- just use the
lappy as a case and power source?

If you can get you hands on one of these 4g USB modems, please let me
know. There are Linux drivers for them, and they will work on Clear's
system. (Or has Clear gone Linux friendly, and the modem is no longer
an obstacle?)

http://www.wimaxian.com/2008/12/27/samsung-swc-u200-is-available-as-yotas-wimax-usb-modem

Best o' luck,
Preston

On Wed, Sep 5, 2012 at 4:40 PM, Robert L. Harris
<robert.l.harris at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
>   I'm betting we have some kids in the neighborhood that like to go down the
> street at 3AM and open any car doors that are unlocked and steal anything
> not nailed down they can pawn.  It's happened twice,  the second time
> snagging the radio out of my softtop jeep.  i want to catch them and either
> hand them to the cops who can't catch them currently.
>
>   I'm annoyed enough at this point I'm willing to put a $50 radio in the
> jeep that looks pretty enough (flashing lights?) to get their attention but
> I need a way to track it.  I would love to find some form of wifi
> transmitter or such I can put inside the case of the radio that I can pick
> up with an android wifi tracker or something along those lines.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
>
>
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