mesh November 2015

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Mailing list to coordinate responses to FCC ruling on router hacking

by Jenny Ryan

In case it slipped through the radar, please join the conversation and send an email to the FCC by August 16th re: new regulations preventing channel-switching and firmware flashing (eg OpenWRT) on wireless routers. * Mailing List: http://lists.prplfoundation.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/fcc * Public comments form: http://apps.fcc.gov/ecfs/proceeding/view?name=15-170 * The talk from BattleMesh: http://www.cnx-software.com/2015/08/07/openwrt-vs-fcc-forced-firmware-lockd… * Current filings: http://apps.fcc .gov/ecfs/comment_search/execute;ECFSSESSION=3nr2V8QKjGWghGDngpFgf6TxvXqFDv94FM4Bz4SxQ6bD2f1BTbJb!-1954627099!-1292486409?proceeding=15-170 If someone from sudomesh could start a pad for writing a collective response, that would be great. I'll have some time on my nightbus ride to Berlin tonight to pitch in but will be unavailable for the next 8 hours. Cheers, Jenny Help open a people-powered common space in Oakland, California! https://omnicommons.org/donate `~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~` "Technology is the campfire around which we tell our stories." -Laurie Anderson "Storytelling reveals meaning without committing the error of defining it." -Hannah Arendt "To define is to kill. To suggest is to create." -Stéphane Mallarmé ~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`~`

10 years

Building Blocks for Kids and Oakland Technology Exchange Technology Fair Sat Nov 21st

by max b

Hey folks, I wanted to let everyone know about this event that will be happening in Richmond this Saturday, Nov 21st. Sudomesh/peoplesopen.net is a co-sponser and will have a table there. I don't have a particularly good idea of what it will look like, but I do have a ton of respect for the work that BBK and OTX do and it'll be a really good opportunity to see what grassroots digital literacy work looks like. The fair will be at: Building Blocks for Kids 312 9th St, Richmond, CA 94801 (a pretty short walk from the BART station) 11/21/2015 10am - 1pm. We were asked to show up at 9am to prepare for tabling, etc. I'll be there to bottom line it, but if other folks want to show up and talk about sudomesh/peoplesopen.net I'd love the company. Facebook event: https://www.facebook.com/events/403105796565832/ Thanks! Max

10 years, 3 months

THURSDAY: Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA

by Jenny Ryan

Stop by sudo this Thursday at 8pm and meet Musti, inventor of the open hardware optical wireless system KORUZA <http://koruza.net>. KORUZA is a 1Gbps wireless optical system for locations up to 100m apart, using an eye-safe infrared light beam. A low cost, open source and open hardware, wireless optical system, making the free space optical (FSO) technology available to masses and providing an alternative to Wi-Fi networks for RF spectrum congested urban areas. *Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA* Complicated and precise systems can be designed more smartly with imperfect tools and machines, demonstrated by the example of KORUZA, a low-cost wireless optical and open source open-hardware system for gigabit 100m wireless communication in urban areas. Motivation for developing this project comes from Wi-Fi, which is the most popular choice for creating low-cost networks these days. However, a large number of such networks fail to co-exist in urban environments due to RF spectrum congestion. KORUZA solves this problem by using a highly collimated optical beam for bi-directional communication. In this talk I will discuss the use of 3D printing for development of precise optical setup with imperfect parts, how to design a system using and re-purposing mass-produced off-the-shelf components, discuss impacts of setting up a global distributed experiment World Wide Koruza l experiment and observing the developed product in real-life. I will also demonstrate the latest KORUZA 1.0 prototype now suitable to make wireless optical gigabit links between buildings. *Bio:* Luka Mustafa is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and working full-time on developing the wireless optical system, KORUZA, at Institute IRNAS Rače in Slovenia, which he founded in 2014. He is also working on his PhD at University College London. For the past year he has led a keen young team at IRNAS to develop open hardware manufacturing solutions ranging from precise 3D printing of plastics and other more unusual materials to large-scale CNC and plasma cutters for heavier metalwork, innovating on the use of optical fibres for these applications. He promotes and deploys open wireless networks with the "wlan slovenia" project, manages national and international wireless backbones and contributes to several open-hardware and electronics projects worldwide. He has wide experience interning on projects from sound-systems to particle accelerator control systems. ( http://koruza.net ) Sudo Calendar: https://sudoroom.org/events/design-for-imperfect-manufacturing-and-challeng… Facebook Event: https://www.facebook.com/events/427453017463929/ Can't make it this Thursday? You can also attend KORUZA event at Noisebridge on the 16th: https://www.noisebridge.net/wiki/Noisebridge_Koruza_event

10 years, 3 months

Fwd: [eecs-announce] BiD Seminar (11/10) Luka Mustafa on Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA

by Mitar

Hi! If you want to learn more about WiFi technologies, Internet, lasers, and 3D printers. :-) Mitar -------- Forwarded Message -------- From: Andrew Head <andrewhead(a)berkeley.edu> Subject: [eecs-announce] BiD Seminar (11/10) Luka Mustafa on Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA Please join us (Tuesday (11/10) for the next installment of the Fall Seminar 2015 Berkeley Institute of Design Weekly Seminar, featuring Luka Mustafa from Institute IRNAS Rače in Slovenia. Tuesday 12pm - 1pm, 10 November 2015 Berkeley Institute of Design (BiD) Lab 354/360 HMMB Don't know where BiD is? No problem: Directions <http://bid.berkeley.edu/directions> *Title:* Design for imperfect manufacturing and challenges of making wireless optical system KORUZA *Abstract*: Complicated and precise systems can be designed more smartly with imperfect tools and machines, demonstrated by the example of KORUZA, a low-cost wireless optical and open source open-hardware system for gigabit 100m wireless communication in urban areas. Motivation for developing this project comes from Wi-Fi, which is the most popular choice for creating low-cost networks these days. However, a large number of such networks fail to co-exist in urban environments due to RF spectrum congestion. KORUZA solves this problem by using a highly collimated optical beam for bi-directional communication. In this talk I will discuss the use of 3D printing for development of precise optical setup with imperfect parts, how to design a system using and re-purposing mass-produced off-the-shelf components, discuss impacts of setting up a global distributed experiment World Wide Koruza experiment and observing the developed product in real-life. I will also demonstrate the latest KORUZA 1.0 prototype now suitable to make wireless optical gigabit links between buildings. *Bio: * Luka Mustafa is a Shuttleworth Foundation Fellow and working full-time on developing the wireless optical system, KORUZA, at Institute IRNAS Rače in Slovenia, which he founded in 2014. He is also working on his PhD at University College London. For the past year he has led a keen young team at IRNAS to develop open hardware manufacturing solutions ranging from precise 3D printing of plastics and other more unusual materials to large-scale CNC and plasma cutters for heavier metalwork, innovating on the use of optical fibres for these applications. He promotes and deploys open wireless networks with the "wlan slovenia" project, manages national and international wireless backbones and contributes to several open-hardware and electronics projects worldwide. He has wide experience interning on projects from sound-systems to particle accelerator control systems. *Website:* http://koruza.net [image: Musti] -- http://mitar.tnode.com/ https://twitter.com/mitar_m

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