I was totally one of those people who showed up once and never again ...
yet. I added a couple potential nodes to that mapping application. One of
those also has a Lake Merrit view (from a hill on the lakeshore side). I
also have a few routers on hand that I bought from that woot deal. I've
been meaning to go to a meeting ... now I know when to go, so thanks!
Stephen
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> This was meant for the mesh list, cc'd!
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> On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
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> > Unless someone complains I'm dropping the Thursday evening events for
> now.
> >
> > That means that we have one weekly meeting only: Tuesday at 7:30 pm.
> >
> > Last meeting I was planning to prototype a 12v power cable. A couple of
> > new meshers showed up though. I'm sure these won't be people who show up
> > once and then never again since one is already an active sudo'er and the
> > other is a ccl'er. I ended up intro-ing them to the mesh. One of them
> > should be able to tie intro existing mesh connections in west oakland but
> > needed approval from housemates, the other person has a view of lake
> > merritt and he took a home node and picostation extender back with him :)
> >
> > Next Tuesday I want to try to solder those cables and we need to design a
> > sticker that annotates what each port on the home node is used for so we
> > don't have to manually make little notes/stickers every time.
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This was meant for the mesh list, cc'd!
Jenny
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On Fri, Apr 8, 2016 at 6:26 PM, Marc Juul <juul(a)labitat.dk> wrote:
> Unless someone complains I'm dropping the Thursday evening events for now.
>
> That means that we have one weekly meeting only: Tuesday at 7:30 pm.
>
> Last meeting I was planning to prototype a 12v power cable. A couple of
> new meshers showed up though. I'm sure these won't be people who show up
> once and then never again since one is already an active sudo'er and the
> other is a ccl'er. I ended up intro-ing them to the mesh. One of them
> should be able to tie intro existing mesh connections in west oakland but
> needed approval from housemates, the other person has a view of lake
> merritt and he took a home node and picostation extender back with him :)
>
> Next Tuesday I want to try to solder those cables and we need to design a
> sticker that annotates what each port on the home node is used for so we
> don't have to manually make little notes/stickers every time.
>
> --
> marc/juul
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At tonight's meet/hacknight we'll be making prototypes of emergency power
cables so people can power their mesh nodes in a disaster situation.
The idea is to make cheap, long, foolproof cables + instructions that make
it simple to power mesh nodes from any 12 vdc source.
The thinking behind this is that the U.S. is full of cars and the most
medium-term power supply in the days/weeks after a disaster will be car
batteries.
A while back we ordered components for this from china and now that they've
arrived we can make some cables and test how they work and whether we need
better under-voltage/over-voltage protection.
See you at 7:30 pm!
--
marc/juul
Just a quick update from tonight's meshup.
Daniel and Will were here and two new folk came by who have previous mesh
experience, especially more high end private mesh setups. They said they'd
be back and talked about writing up a guide to openwrt compatible mesh
hardware in the post-new-FCC rules!
We got Will set up with a MyNet N600 and a Picostation 2 and he's going to
come by on Thursday and crimp a cable for his rooftop node. He is now
living even closer to Omni and it looks like he has line of sight between
the apartment complexes!
Will took the opportunity to write down every step of the flashing and
configuring process and will be updating the walkthrough on the wiki!
The SSL cert on secrets.sudomesh.org had expired (it's used for the
makenode database) so I updated that.
We also shared some pizza and used the CCL model of just putting out a hat
for pizza money which ended up recouping all but $1 of the cost :)
--
marc/juul