Hacking Routers Like It’s 2008
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A nostalgic look at the long history of router hacking, centered on the Linksys WRT54GL and OpenWRT Linux. The piece revisits a 2008 robot project built on router hardware and reflects on how OpenWRT has evolved over 18+ years — dropping old hardware due to memory growth but remaining the go-to Linux distro for repurposing consumer routers. The author encourages picking up cheap used routers supported by OpenWRT as capable, general-purpose Linux single-board computers with networking, USB, GPIO, and serial capabilities.
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