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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]
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