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You simply can't make a WiFi transceiver out of discrete components.

That sounds like a challenge... given that someone has already done something similar with a GPS receiver:

http://lea.hamradio.si/~s53mv/navsats/theory.html



Not sure if this counts, as these are SoC, but still very high difficulty and very cool:

‘So you think you’re pretty good at soldering really tiny parts onto a PCB? You’re probably not as good as [Shibata] who made a GPS/GLONASS and Geiger counter mashup deadbug-style with tiny 0402-sized parts.

‘The device uses an extremely small GPS/GLONASS receiver, an AVR ATxmega128D3 microcontroller, a standard Nokia phone display and an interesting Geiger tube with a mica window to track its location and the current level of radiation.‘

https://hackaday.com/2015/04/26/a-deadbugged-gpsglonassgeige...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xo8qckXgNNw


You could probably do WiFi with an SDR with an FPGA, but that's about as much as a hobbyist could probably pull off.





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