Wi-Fi password-granting banana shuffles off its mortal coil

Say hello to Version 2 of the Wi-Fi access granting banana.

On the negative side, it’s far less fragrant. On the plus side, the enterprise-ready model doesn’t attract fruit flies.

Wi-Fi Banana 1.0

A recap: last month, Danish network engineer Stefan Milo was tasked with setting up a captive portal for his business’s Wi-Fi network and creating temporary guest password vouchers – in a spreadsheet.

On paper? That somebody had to print out? And that you have to pester a receptionist for?

How very 1999, he said.

So he went off and spent a weekend setting up a script on a Raspberry Pi that generated a unique guest key on command and displayed the code on an attached display.

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