Deployed our first node!

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

--Tunabananas (talk) 21:21, 31 December 2013 (PST)

hello world!

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)