We all know what Open means in Android: Android is an “open” operating system in name only. Sure, you can get the source code and mess around with it, but there are no mainstream generic Android phones that work on any carrier, and no carrier-sold phones are simple to crack open and do what you
Category: WiFi
Wifi Robot
Pedro twittered about the Spykee Wifi Robot. Seems cool. But this one runs Linux with the help of a Linksys WRT54GL. Awesome.
Eye-Fi for Security
This is fun. Really. Alison DeLauzon, Reuters reports, had her camera stolen when left an equipment bag in a restaurant in Florida. The folks who allegedly took the bag also took pictures of themselves, which isn’t unusual. But DeLauzon had an Eye-Fi wireless Secure Digital (SD) card in her camera, received as a gift. The
FON on NYTimes
Great article about FON on New York Times. It also has some good insides about the company, business model and inevitably Martin Varsavsky (Mr Jazztel, Ya.com) profile & lifestyle. FON wants to build a wireless internet infrastructure on top of a grassroots broadband movement and sell internet access for nomadic users. I’m skeptical about FON’s
Flashing nights
Nada me dá mais prazer do que flashar estas belezas (Fonera Atheros SoC AR2315 18 dBi) com OpenWRT não FON. O que temos nesta caixita: Architecture: MIPS 4KEc Bootloader: RedBoot System-On-Chip: Atheros AR2315 CPU Speed: 183 MHz Flash size: 8 MiB RAM: 16 MiB Wireless: Integrated Atheros 802.11b/g Ethernet: 1x RJ45 USB: No Serial: Yes
WiFi T-Shirt: best teeshirt evah
Now, that’s a t-shirt I would love: It’s a Wi-Fi detector with battery-pack that displays via a decal on a T-shirt front. It’s $30, comes in S to XXL, and detects 802.11b and 802.11g. Requires three AAA batteries (not included). The washing instructions are particularly amusing; I have had silk shirts that required less care.
Meraki: Free the Net SF
The Free the Net San Francisco is the biggest implementation of a Meraki Mesh in a city neighborhood so far. Meraki teamed up with the local communities to setup and give away the hardware (with some local agreements with DSL providers, for the internet backhaul) and mesh know-how. So, since they’ve announced the new network
Meraki and a few impressions
I’ve been working on a Wifi Mesh experiment with Meraki Gear for the last 2 months. I was looking for a better low-cost single radio mesh alternative to the OLSR/OpenWRT platform (Freifunk Firmware). So far, the experiment is going well, it has some glitches with coverage due to the low-power radios of the Meraki Mini
Mesh on the OLPC
If you’re into Wifi Mesh Protocols there’s interesting news on the OLPC front and MIT work. They’re developing a new protocol based on a “probalistic presence mechanism” right into the OLPC firmware. Polychronis Ypodimatopoulos, Pol for short, has developed a “probabilistic presence mechanism” in the mesh firmware for the OLPC. The presence mechanism uses a
La Fonera Day
FON Social Router Engineering sample This is clearly La Fonera Day. Check this out. They giving it away, for free. And it runs Linux, of course.