Hi all
I stumbled upon the disaster.radio a few days ago while researching mesh
networks, community owned networks and off grid communication systems.
Without being asked: I love the concept of disaster.radio, but I think
disaster.radio should go beyond the "disaster" use case. It will be easier
to gain more attention for this interesting project in the long run by
having the recreational activities (like hiking, outdoor activities,
traveling, sailing, ...) in mind. Or in other words: the term disaster is
so negatively affected.
>From my (limited, external) point of view the disaster.radio is like a
stationary Gotenna relay station with an endless solar powered power
supply. Everybody should install one on the office, the garden or at home.
I started going through the hardware part list and checked out where I can
find the parts.
I did a lot of Raspberry and Arduino projects before so this is not
completely unfamiliar to me, but pardon me, but this is absolutely for
hardware "nerds" – ahm, I meant experts. ;-) Further more – one must master
the soldering iron.
A starter kit or a simple kit with less parts, would be great. The question
was asked on Github, here:
https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio/issues/12, as well.
It seems others would love the get their foot into this without investing
too much time and effort to building the hardware in the first place. Not
all of us are into hardware and considering such a network as an
infrastructure and are willing to build on top of it.
After digging a bit deeper a saw the "portable node" presented on YouTube
in this video: https://youtu.be/0dosXMXaU94?t=3m52s . A tutorial to get
this small portable nodes up and running would be awesome. I'm interested
to contribute in this area. Everybody should be able to have a little node
attached to there van, the backpack or where they want.
What parts are used for this "portable node"? And where can I order the
parts?
My second question is: What is the goal of this project? Is this an
experiment or the next "big thing"? Is there an open roadmap?
A reaction on filed Github issues would be great to get this project
going...
Cheers,
Xavier
I made some flyers for distributing with the boards tonight, but am still
en route to oakland (about to hit bakersfield) - is anyone able to print
them for tonight?
can make quick edits on the road - .xcf file is here so please fork / amend
/ improve at will:
https://github.com/sudomesh/propaganda/blob/master/flyers/disasterradio-fly…
<3
Jenny
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Hey y'all, I asked Brewster and Wendy about Disaster Radio comps for the
summit, got this back. If you're down to work cleanup on Thursday night,
holler back! (I have a ticket already, proceeds of backroom EFF deal.)
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Leez,
We'd love for Disaster Radio folks to attend!
We've extended comp tickets to a large group of Sudomesh folks including
Jenny Ryan in exchange for volunteer hours.
Have you talked to Jenny? Maybe many people in disaster radio are
already volunteering.
But here's the problem: every person who comes costs IA $585. That's
our break even per person. So we need enough people to pay to offset all
the free registrations, and right now, if I sell every single remaining
ticket. we will just break even.
There is one way we could work out a deal-- we need clean up help on
Thursday night from 9PM to 2 AM. That's right. It's a gruesome shift,
but we will all be there ourselves striking the Mint.
If your folks are willing to volunteer and really show up for that
shift, we can offer pure comp tix.
(In my experience, getting people to actually show up for that shift
takes a lot of arm-twisting, so you, Leez, would have to guarantee us
that you would make sure they actually came and volunteered Thursday night.)
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♥Ⓐ(ɔ) leez
GPG: https://leez.us/duolc/index.php/s/nCJQf0a4HVrktRY
We still have more soldering to do on the disaster radio nodes for the dweb
summit.
This time most of the soldering will be larger through-hole components so
it should be easier for less experienced solderers.
Join us at 7:30 pm tonight at sudo room!
or later.
There will be pizza and beer!
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marc/juul
We're having a hacknight this coming Tuesday to solder up ~50 dev boards to
be given away to interested developers at the decentralized web summit!
We have all but a few boards pre-populated with everything except the LoRa
radio modules, the SMA edge connector and pin headers.
If any of you have time to help out and any sort of experience with
soldering then we could really use your help! Even if you don't we'll need
help flashing and testing them.
There will be food and drinks :)
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marc/juul
We just got an email that disaster.radio is a finalist in the Mozilla
NSF/WINS challenge!
That means we'll have to do a 5 minute live demo in Mountain View on August
15th. This will be followed by 2-3 minutes of questions from the judges.
Audience size will be ~20 judges + ~80 others.
We don't know how many teams are finalists.
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marc/juul
Great! Yes let's do 7 pm :)
On Wed, Jul 18, 2018 at 10:38 PM, Stephen Whitmore <sww(a)eight45.net> wrote:
> I'll be there! I've only done soldering once before, but I'd really
> appreciate
> the practice. 1900h?
>
> ~ noffle
>
>
> On 07/18 14:23, Marc Juul wrote:
> > We're having a hacknight this coming Tuesday to solder up ~50 dev boards
> to
> > be given away to interested developers at the decentralized web summit!
> >
> > We have all but a few boards pre-populated with everything except the
> LoRa
> > radio modules, the SMA edge connector and pin headers.
> >
> > If any of you have time to help out and any sort of experience with
> > soldering then we could really use your help! Even if you don't we'll
> need
> > help flashing and testing them.
> >
> > There will be food and drinks :)
> >
> > --
> > marc/juul
>
> > _______________________________________________
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> > DisasterRadio(a)lists.sudoroom.org
> > https://sudoroom.org/lists/listinfo/disasterradio
>
>
Alright, the round 2 application has been submitted!
Thanks to everyone for their hard work on the hardware, software and
application :D
We'll be cleaning up the video and publishing a nicer version that we can
broadcast far and wide later this week :)
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marc/juul
