/diy/ - Do It Yourself

anyone that posts on /tv/ will find that they have to reboot their modem on occasion. i got sick of that so i made a wireless switch with an esp8266 and other trash i had sitting around. it'll regularly read a flag off my webserver and power cycle the modem if the flag changes. it's meant to be controlled by a script that also clones the router MAC and clears cookies. i haven't spliced it into the modem's wall wart cable yet but it works on the bench.

i learned from this that you can use a sot-223 as a through hole part if you're aggressive enough. you can see it cowering under the esp.