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Unknown Destination

(Hacker app by Nihal Hasan)

The routine

The spectator can freely pick/name any playing card, or write down a city, animal etc. Then you ask them if they know which is the local Wi-Fi network you can use, while showing them the Wi-Fi settings on your iPhone. Suddenly there is a glitch effect on your phone, and each and every Wi-Fi hotspot is renamed to their selection (card, city, animal etc.). They can also check the available Wi-Fi networks on their own phone, and they will also see dozens of hotspots with the same name!


How it works

The "Unknown Destiation" app by Nihal Hasan is a custom companion app for the "Hacker" device by the French Twins. If you set the App integration to MS Local, the app can pull the last value from the MysterSmith text buffer (both apps should run on the same phone). Then the app sends the value to the Hacker device, which will create dozens of Wi-Fi hotspots with the same name.

In MysterSmith you have to do a text recognition from an impression board (or the in-app Doodle screen, or using the WEB-doodle on another spectator's phone), and the app will save the recognized text in the text buffer. Alternatively you can use other text input methods, like manual text entry in the MysterSmith app, reading an NFC card, polling a WEB API source or using the WEB-thumper from any browser, and save that text to the text buffer.

If you go with text recognition, please read all info on this page:  Text recognition

API Access add-on needed

To be able to send data from the MysterSmith app to 3rd party apps and APIs, you have to buy the "API Access" add-on. Alternatively you can subscribe to MysterSmith, and get access to all the available add-ons.

More information:  "API Access" add-on