31 December 2013

Today we finished installing our first backbone node! It's running Sudo Mesh v0.1 Snow Crash, and will soon be linking up with two neighboring hacker houses. :-)

Here's Juul's reportback:

Pete and myself installed a Nanostation M5 on a 20 foot aluminum flagpole in West Oakland. The node is about 14 feet above the roof of a two-story building. The total cost of this install ran to about $145 including all materials.
Bill of Materials:

One Nanostation M5 loco

One 4 foot wood beam of 3.5" by 3.5"

Three 5" by 1/4" bolts

Three 5/8" washers for bolts (optional)

Three 1/2" washers for bolts (optional)

Two 5" hose clamps

30+ feet of outdoor shielded ethernet cable

Two shielded/groundable ethernet plugs

A bunch of zip ties

The optional washers make it easier to tighten and untighten the bolts (otherwise they dig into the wood).
Material sources:

Nanostation from Amazon

Flag pole from Harbor Freight

Everything else from Home Depot

hello world!

it's been nearly a year since we first started meeting - our tiny group. so much learning, so much progress!

we've launched the peoplesopen.net! && meshthepla.net!

check out our code - namely forks of openwrt running batman-adv for routing and incorporating wlan-slovenia's tunneldigger for secure vpn connections, as well as an admin interface written in lua.

--Tunabananas (talk) 06:54, 28 December 2013 (PST)

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31 December 2013

hello world!