I'm extremely interested in SDR efforts. You guys doing custom layer 1 protocols? What
frequency bands? What FPGA boards are you using? Do you have access to parallela kit? What
rf frontends have you researched?
About a million other questions, but that's enough to start.
FNF is looking into very low power, custom layer 1/2 SDR for permament on station high
altidude radio platforms. Quadcopter mesh is cute, but we are thinking more along the
lines of an open source project loon. Potentially using microwave beams to power the
airships, if we can't get enough power from solar.
Copying our mailing list on this response, apology for the crosspost.
Marc Juul <marcjc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Since everyone is introducing themselves:
Hi, I'm Marc Juul. I'm excited about decentralized and heterarchical
structures, both in the form of networks and in systems for
organization. I
co-founded two hackerspaces (sudo room and labitat) and two biohacking
groups (biologigaragen and counter culture labs). I have skills in the
fields of network programming, web programming, digital electronics and
synthetic biology (not yet sure how that last one will be relevant to
the
mesh but I'm sure we'll find a way!). I'm very interested in crypto,
and
its application in mesh networks.
I've been wanting to learn about radio, both the details of wifi and
the
fundamentals of radio transmitters and receivers, for several years and
I'm
delighted to have the time to really dig into this field.
I want to take this chance to announce that we also have a small
sub-group
within the mesh group that is playing with software defined radios and
designing and building our own radios for digital communications. If
you're
interested in hanging out and poking at that kind of stuff then speak
up!
Personally, I'd like to see us not just build a successful wifi mesh
that
is run for and by the local community, but also begin improving on the
state of the art of mesh software and hardware.
--
Marc
On Tue, Jul 2, 2013 at 10:03 AM, Thomas Dudley <trd3r(a)virginia.edu>
wrote:
Hey all!
Just wanted to piggyback on this to introduce myself.
I'm Thomas. I live in SF. My work isn't on the technical side - I've
been
working as a management consultant for the past
three years and in
the Fall
I'll be heading down to Stanford to work on a
PhD in organizational
behavior. Outside of work I've been volunteering on the board of a
local
non-profit where I've learned a lot about
fundraising methods for
small
organizations. I think this is an awesome project
and I'm excited to
help
out in any way I can - either through sharing
business/non-profit
experiences, helping to set up a node (anyone in PA? looks pretty far
from
the current center of mass), fundraising, mundane
tasks, basically
anything
that's useful.
Unfortunately I haven't been able to make it to a meet up yet - I'm
going
to do my best to make that happen soon but
unfortunately the next few
weeks
look pretty busy for me.
Nice to meet you!
Thomas
On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:06 PM, Marc Juul <marcjc(a)gmail.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 8:00 PM, Steve Berl <steveberl(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>
>> I think I just added it, but it isn't showing on the map. Is there
some
>> moderator step or something?
>>
>
> It sends a verification email to the email address you put in, and
only
> shows up once you click the link in the email
you (should have)
received.
>
> --
> Marc
>
>
>>
>> -steve
>>
>>
>> On Mon, Jul 1, 2013 at 2:47 PM, Miguel Vargas <unroar(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
>>
>>> Hi Steve,
>>>
>>> Could you mark your house on
http://meshmap.sudoroom.org/ as a
>>> potential node site?
>>>
>>> Thanks
>>>
>>>
>>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:25 AM, Steve Berl
<steveberl(a)gmail.com>wrote;wrote:
>>>
>>>> As long as we are doing introductions, I'm Steve Berl. I'm kind
of new
>>>> to wireless and mesh stuff, but I
do have a lot of IP network
experience,
>>>> having worked at Cisco for 16
years. I sort of specialized there
in ways to
>>>> make deployment, configuration,
and management easy and cheap.
>>>>
>>>> I'm also getting into the RF side of things, doing a bit of
amateur
>>>> radio astronomy with RTL-SDR, and
turns out I really like
building antennas
>>>> of various kinds, so if we want
to whip up some high gain yagis
or
>>>> cantennas, I'm up for it.
>>>>
>>>> I also live in Piedmont partway up the hill, and from my roof I
have
>>>> have line of site to all of Lake
Merritt and a chunk of downtown
Oakland,
>>>> Emeryville, and into Berkeley.
The roof has easy access, and it
is easy to
>>>> drop cables down from there into
my basement/machineroom, so for
testing
>>>> those long point to point
links...
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> -steve
>>>>
>>>>
>>>> On Sat, Jun 29, 2013 at 10:07 AM, Adrian Chadd
<adrian(a)freebsd.org>wrote;wrote:
>>>>
>>>>> Hi!
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm Adrian. I'm a wifi hacker. I worked at Qualcomm Atheros
for
18
>>>>> months on various open and
closed source wifi things. I'm also
the
>>>>> FreeBSD wireless developer.
>>>>>
>>>>> My main focus is FreeBSD but I know a bunch of stuff about
openwrt and
>>>>> the Linux wireless stack and
Atheros drivers.
>>>>>
>>>>> Right now I'm working on FreeBSD support for the latest Atheros
chips
>>>>> and SoCs (the AR933x and
AR934x stuff), as well as finishing off
the
>>>>> 11n support for TDMA and
802.11s mesh.
>>>>>
>>>>> I came along to the mesh meetup because being a developer of
this
>>>>> stuff in a vacuum is a bit
silly. I've been looking for local
groups
>>>>> who are interested in wifi
and want to do strange things with
it. This
>>>>> group seems to be that way
inclined. :-) I'm also looking for
>>>>> victims^Whelpers to test out the long-distance side of this TDMA
>>>>> support in FreeBSD. It's supposed to work up to dozens of miles,
but I
>>>>> just don't have access to
places to mount equipment to test. I'm
>>>>> hoping that I can find some people here who are willing to help
me
>>>>> with this. I can provide the
wireless hardware; all I need here
is an
>>>>> internet hookup and places to
mount stuff.
>>>>>
>>>>> I'm happy to help out any way I can.
>>>>>
>>>>> If you're all interested, I can do some talks on how this stuff
works
>>> and how long distance links work/don't
work.
>>>
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>>
>>>
>>> -adrian
>>> _______________________________________________
>>> mesh mailing list
>>> mesh(a)lists.sudoroom.org
>>>
http://lists.sudoroom.org/listinfo/mesh
>>>
>>
>>
>>
>> --
>> -steve
>>
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>
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-steve
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