Whole rig weighs in at 3.5 oz. Main components include a 24 oz. Heineken® beer can (pot), an 8 oz. apple juice can (burner), 5.5 oz. cat food can (lid) and 10″ aluminum flashing (windscreen).

Using 1 oz. of denatured alcohol it’s able to boil 16 oz. of 62 degree water in 8:35, eventually burning out at 15:40. It’s worth noting that with just 1/2 oz. of fuel it manages to heat the same 16 oz. of water to 200 degrees by 11:00 (plenty hot for freeze dried meals)

Flashing roll (10″ x 10′) cost about $10 at Home Depot, the rest came from the recycling bin.

Video here

It’s just that good.

Armed with this app, an iphone running 2.0+ firmware, a Windows XP laptop and Apple’s Safari Browser, you’re no longer constrained to a network of commercial hotspots and nefarious wifi connections.

Experience near-DSL speeds in 3G service areas, completely untethered from the wired world and costly data card contracts.

Proceed with caution.

Though this seems to work, understand you may be violating your carrier’s terms of service and possibly exceeding your bandwidth allotment. Use at your own risk. 

Not so easy.

As great as the app is, it can be quite painful to get going the first time. 

For those of you struggling with setup, I’ve laid out most of the key steps below. Not sure if this is the best way to setup, but I was able to configure three different laptops, so it is one way of doing it.

Hope this is of help to some of you and please sound off in the comments with stories of success, failure & why NetShare is almost as freeing as the Stadium Pal.

download and open safari on the pc

select prefs under edit menu

click change settings

click LAN settings

click advanced

enter 192.168.10.1 to socks field & click ok to this and other underlying windows. close safari for now

open network connections

right-click wireless network, select properties

on the wireless networks tab click add

association tab: configure new network like so

authentication tab: no need to mess with this

connection tab: check this box & click ok

under general tab, select TCP/IP, click properties

configure IP with 192.168.10.2, subnet with 255.255.255.0, click OK, then close

right-click & view wireless networks

if you're currently connected to another network, make sure to disconnect first. then select iphonepc and click connect.

it will try to connect, but won't actually do it. need to setup the iphone now.

select iphone settings

select wifi

select iphonepc network. pc connection should now indicate success. click blue arrow next.

configure static IP with 192.168.10.1 & subnet with 255.255.255.0

under general settings set auto-lock to never

open a new webpage on iphone. this initiates the 3g/edge connection. move quickly to next steps!

open NetShare on iphone

open safari on the pc

that's it. screaming fast 3g

Check out Edison’s Blue and Yellow video here!