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This page documents various hardware experiments started 5th of July 2016. Using new types of hardware as home nodes and external antennas and wifi usb sticks. | This page documents various hardware experiments started 5th of July 2016. Using new types of hardware as home nodes and external antennas and wifi usb sticks. | ||
= ESP8266 = | |||
These aren't full computers, but they're more powerful microcontrollers than Arduinos and cheap (less than $3) and have support 802.11n on 2.4 GHz with all modes (ad-hoc, master, client). Not sure if they support multiple SSIDs at the same time. Power usage is about 0.6 watts when maxing out wifi transmit power. | |||
= Omega2 single board computer = | = Omega2 single board computer = | ||
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* Single USB port | * Single USB port | ||
* Runs Debian | * Runs Debian | ||
[[User:Juul|Juul]] likes it. Easy to flash, easy to use and runs debian stably. Its wifi chipset only supports two wifi SSIDs but both master and ad-hoc mode is supported (probably client too but I didn't check). This means that we can have them meshing (ad-hoc) and have client peoplesopen.net but no private SSID. | |||
= Nexx WT3020F - Very cheap home node ($12.50) = | = Nexx WT3020F - Very cheap home node ($12.50) = | ||