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bicyclists and North Corktown
Recently a few of my friends have asked me what could help encourage more people in my neighborhood to ride bicycles. For all the time I’ve been a bicycle commuter and advocate for cyclists in Detroit, I’ve never really considered what a specific neighborhood could do to encourage bicycle use. My work at [...]
Vote for FACT Social Justice Challenge projects!
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
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
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
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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AMC 2010 liveblogging: gleaning tweets with node.js and mysql
As the web dev for the Allied Media Conference, I've been tasked with creating a system for participants to liveblog about all the sessions at this year's conference. I decided on setting up a three-part system: a tweet searcher+archiver, a JSON server, and the existing 2010 AMC and USSF discussion message board software.
Upcoming DISCOTECH
Discover Technology at the DiscoTech … Saturday Jun 12 2-5pm @ MOCAD … Brought to you by the Detroit Digital Justice Coalition …. Own technology, together … Download PDF of flyer …
hotMesh update
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. [...]
Springtime meshes