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Springtime meshes

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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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 [...]
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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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Detroit digital justice-related netsquared/FACT grant ideas

I worked with two groups in applying for Netsquared/FACT grants: http://netsquared.org/projects/detroit-garden-sensor-development http://netsquared.org/projects/pomaceous-detroitfruit-trees The former project will hopefully lead to other sensor tech developments including environmental air-quality sensors. The latter is a bit more ethereal but will hopefully get more urban agriculture-minded people interested in using media for organizing. If you have a moment, leave a note of support by commenting [...]
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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.
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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 …
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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. [...]
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