eric’s extremeboredom

Saturday’s field day was a success! The alki group got together around 11:30 and quickly had a link to the folks at magnolia. The primary form of communication between sites was FRS, which was absolutely horrible. Apparently everyone else could here us fine, but we could barely hear anything, and had to constantly ask the [...]

This Saturday (October 28th, 2006), SeattleWireless is holding our second Field Day. From the website: Field day is a free hands-on, all-day exercise for those interested in learning about wireless networking and community wireless networks. We will be setting up a mesh network at three parks around Seattle: Alki, Magnolia and Gasworks; as well as [...]

The goal of the SeattleWireless project is to create a community owned and maintained wireless network around the city. The network is being built using standard protocols and open-source mesh routing software, making it easy for anybody to participate using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. SeattleWireless is completely free to use, and does not rely on the [...]

Since the weather has been so nice, we met at a park for HackNight. From the park matt blogged all of the details and some photos using free WiFi from a nearby café: Tonight we met on Teletubby Hill at Cal Anderson Park, enjoying the sunshine and ripping through some Axis Digital Media Managers that [...]

Yesterday I watched a very good presentation about multicast dns service discovery (aka bonjour aka rendezvous aka zeroconf) given by Stuart Cheshire who happens to be the person at apple that created it. One of the things mentioned that I had not previously heard of was the fact that bonjour supports unicast dns service discovery [...]

You can now get a 3D view of the SeattleWireless network using Google Earth! Assuming you have it installed, just click the link at the bottom of the map. Thank you Google (Keyhole) for providing documentation on how to create feeds.

This morning at 8am a group of people (I was unfortunetly not able to make it) from the SeattleWireless project met with the climbers we hired (thanks to last month’s fundraiser) to install an 802.11 antenna 150 ft. up a radio tower that is located on top of a large hill in the middle of [...]

Yesterday I helped Matt Westervelt put together a page for Seattle Wireless’s Node Fundraiser, he announced it today: SeattleWireless needs your help to put a wireless node on the Capitol Hill Radio Towers. This node will be able to connect Seattle neighborhoods and can possibly be used for longer distance links as well. It is [...]