Tag Archives: community wireless

Loving, Graceful Machines to Watch Your Chickens With

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: January 8, 2012
It’s gotten cold in Detroit again, and the chickens need the usual TLC: more food, more straw, heated water dispensers, and active heating inside the coop. In previous years we’ve used a single incandescent lightbulb to keep the coop at a hospitable temperature, but this year, we’re trying something different: we’ll use an infrared heat [...]
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Researching text message community alert systems

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: April 20, 2011
Preface: I have to put this into a bit of current events context:  I spent the morning researching for this blog post, but was interrupted with news of an ACLU investigation into Michigan police officers breaking into citizen’s cell phones and the iPhone logging location data and mirroring it to your computer’s hard drive.  Both [...]
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Springtime meshes

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: April 5, 2011
It has been a busy winter for me, and I’m sad to say that i haven’t been very active with the community internet building until recently… that said, it has been pretty awesome for the past few weeks. For the past couple OCD “open hack night” Thursdays, I’ve invited fellow wireless hackers to work on neighborhood [...]
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Vote for FACT Social Justice Challenge projects!

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: October 12, 2010
The public voting period for this year’s FACT Social Justice Challenge ends this Friday!  Read about how to vote on projects — unfortunately it’s a bit complicated.  I should’ve written up a grant to improve their website. There are two interesting Detroit projects, as well as a few other cool ones, that I would like to [...]
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Late summer updates: leaves, chicken races, hacker spaces, garden sensors

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: August 22, 2010
I’d like to share a few stories: 1) Leaves For some odd reason a tree in my backyard thinks it’s Autumn, turned yellow, and pooed its leaves all over the place.  Here’s a photo with my dog Auto. This leaf event, combined with the end of an endless heat wave, has noticeably  changed my mood.  Time to start storing up [...]
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GSM hijacking + VoIP + community wifi

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: August 1, 2010
Via HN: Chris Paget demonstrated a nifty little GSM hijacking device at Defcon: with a directional antenna and some clever OpenBTS-based software, he was able to provide an irresistably-strong signal for cellphones, which would switch off call encryption and then trunk the call onto a VoIP network. Sure, this is awesome for espionage, playing jokes on [...]
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Extensive mesh

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: June 28, 2010
After an invigorating AMC2010, and a very fruitful HOT MESH conference session and media lab presence, I’m back at my daily work of code wrangling, system adminstering, etc.  But this afternoon I had the chance to extend the North Corktown community wireless network, with Dan from OTI and a few freshly-prepared wireless routers. Back story I live [...]
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hotMesh update

By Benjamin Chodoroff | Published: April 13, 2010
Hi, Things have been extremely busy for me with work, and I haven’t been able to spend much time with the community wireless network development. I have, however, rolled out a couple test networks. Two of the networks are running quite well. One is in the south Cass Corridor, the other in North Corktown. [...]
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