Mesh/22 Aug 2017

Peoples Open Meeting - 22 Aug 2017

attendees

• Scott, Blake, Matt P, Everett, Gwendolyn, Grant, Marc, ALex, Jenny, noffle, eve, daniel, robb

updates

sunday node mounts

• https://peoplesopen.net/sundays
• node mounts every sunday - past 2 weeks have mounted 2 nodes at noisebridge and this week updated firmware on livelabs and hearth
• this sunday: larry, by lake merritt

firmware

• https://github.com/sudomesh/sudowrt-firmware
• grant added script to build sudowrt openwrt firmware to sudowrt-firmware

disaster radio

• https://github.com/sudomesh/disaster-radio-nodemcu
• running into memory leak issues
• marc discovered the chip used by the LoRa is pretty standard, so we can get it cheaper
• meeting on saturday, sep 2nd
• discussing collaboration with ssb for offline sync etc
• need to add a vector map of the local area
• 128MB sd cards are ~$1.50 now
• circuitboard layout still needs to be designed -

breakout groups

• disasterradio: juul, papazoga, grant,
• wpa supplicant: blake
  • https://w1.fi/wpa_supplicant/

discussion w/ Isabel (Chris, Ruben, ?)

• intro to Isabel hydroponics company with a warehouse on Treasure Island - interested in garden mesh
  • range of gardenmesh nodes ~100 meters
  • uses MQQT protocol for communicating between nodes
  • switching to C from lua
  • gardenmesh nodes limited by having only 1 analog input, so digital inputs preferred
  • Isabel building a hydroponic yam production farm in nigeria... had been thinking of using weather stations using particle as the dev platform, connecting to other nodes over 3G
  • looking to measure water temp, outdoor temp&humidity, light
  • barometric pressure, salinity of the water, oxygen v important for plant uptake

misc link dump

• captive portal splash page (last updated Jan 2016): https://github.com/sudomesh/captive-portal-splash and https://github.com/sudomesh/garden-gnome (for iOS devices specifically, last updated 2 yrs ago)

shopping list

• need more nanostations and nanobeams
• cat6 shielded cables
• another pair of good crimpers
• outdoor shielded ethernet cable?

action items

• from last week: start a thread re: group decision-making processes
• initiate workshop discussion on the list
• reach out to pete to talk with the current folks living at his place (node connected to livelabs)
• start on the NSF/Mozilla grant
• work on 501c3 application - https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4_Q7DQvNFT-MWx5bkI5MXVUYkU
• install another hard drive in our 2 new VPNs that we're setting up.