Mesh/22 Aug 2017
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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
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.