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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) =

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