Mesh/7 February 2013
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Attendees
Alcides, Marc, Jenny, JC, David, George, Miguel
Notes
- Ham Radio Licenses allow for broadcasting up to 50 watt at 2.4Ghz
- Free class to procure ham radio license in one day at Noisebridge March 17th
- Has to be amateur / not paid-for services
- Can't be encrypted (What does that mean for HTTPS?)
- Definitely an area that needs further research!
- Hook into Downtown Berkeley WiFi?
- Hackerspace Darknets (accessible to other hackerspaces)
- CJDNS
- Bounce a signal off the moon / other satellites
- Direct connect several nodes (Andrew's place/Vagabond Ballroom; Mark B's House, Adeline House, Sudo Room, Media Alliance, node in East Oakland)
- Need for directional antennas
- Should we make antennas?
- Lasers?
- 10 mbps (RONJA)
- Not good in the rain
- Location triangulation
- Suggestion: East Bay Communications Resilience Group
- Software-defined radios
- Low-bandwidth radio receivers
- Boats in the bay could receive long-distance comms, for instance
- OpenBTS
- MonkeyBrains as backhaul for a mesh network
- Burning Man Community / San Francisco dark fiber opps
- JC - mobile ad hoc mesh network
- CB Radio backpacks for berkeley protest peacekeepers as inspiration for mobile ad hoc networks
- Starts with communication (voice, over data)
- Solar power system for mesh box and mobile phone
- Pay phones as mesh nodes for anonymous hot-spotting
- Peet's running on a mesh backbone?
- Open Mesh - uses batman-adv, NG firmware
- ALIX
- AIS - boat radio communications
- Emergency Broadcast Band - airwaves set aside
- Cognitive Radio to detect currently broadcasting signals
Projects
- Mobile ad hoc networks
- 4GB of data to sync across the nodes
- Using git to update the nodes
- People moving around feeding the network
- Mycelia - geospatial mapping via decentralized databases for inventory management, project and skill matching (talk to marc juul and jenny if you want to work on this project!)
- Router Reuse Program - Proposed sudo room project :D
- DC415 - DefCon mesh in SF
Action Items
- Inventory / Donations of hardware
- Open call to hackerspaces for surplus routers / wifi devices
- ANTAC wifi cable modems
- Base repository of information
- See for instance The Pyre: http://thepyre.org/wiki (talk to jenny)
- Get a mesh node running at sudo room!
- Field survey trip to visit existing nodes
- Box in a Bag for activists