Researchers at Dartmouth College have discovered that 3D-printed signal reflectors made out of foil and plastic “drastically improve the wireless signal around a home”.<\/p>\n
According to Engadget<\/strong><\/a>, the reflectors are based on the idea of using an\u00a0aluminium soda can behind a router to concentrate its signals in a specific direction.<\/p>\n The reflectors are made out of plastic and covered in\u00a0aluminium foil, with a unit’s shape determined by data fed into the WiPrint system.<\/p>\n The custom program analyses the layout of a space and designs an optimal reflector in a 3D printer.<\/p>\n Excluding the price of the 3D printer, a reflector costs around $35 to make.<\/p>\n Researchers have developed 3D-printed signal reflectors for routers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":23,"featured_media":138488,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[749],"class_list":["post-236874","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-wireless","tag-wi-fi"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236874"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/23"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236874"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236874\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":236876,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236874\/revisions\/236876"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/138488"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236874"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236874"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236874"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Now read:\u00a0Vodacom\u2019s fixed LTE-A service will be the best in South Africa<\/a><\/h3>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"