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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 [...]
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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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. [...]
Detroit mesh networks – pwning our internet infrastructure irrigation pathways
Detroit’s first wireless mesh networks are imminent: I am patiently awaiting the arrival of a slew of Foneras and open-mesh pro routers!
I’m currently researching the procedure to jailbreak foneras. It’s been well-documented by CUWiN and also pauldotcom. I was hoping to have some fun soldering things, but it looks like that won’t be [...]
Researching text message community alert systems