On Stage: Hack your Wireless Rooter with Node

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Do you have a WIFI rooter ? How about turning that rooter into a Node.JS application server ?

Node.JS is great for developing scalable web applications in a very short time. Nowadays, node.js applications can run on almost every single platform/device. This on stage performance is intended to demonstrate the power of node.js on a low budget Wifi rooter.

Imagine a 40 USD rooter hosting hundreds of participants on a live event.

Step by step;

• Unboxing a brand new Wifi rooter
• Rooting the rooter to OpenWrt
• Running a sample node.js chat application on the rooter
• Participants can connect to rooter over it's Wifi interface
• Show the live chat messages from participants

Expected total time : 20 mins