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=Crazy Ideas= | =Crazy Ideas= | ||
*viral node generation - present captive portals on carriers that require the user to become a "infected" and themselves present captive portals to other non infected devices (zombie smartphone apocalypse) | *viral node generation - present captive portals on carriers that require the user to become a "infected" and themselves present captive portals to other non infected devices (zombie smartphone apocalypse) | ||
*make it easy and fun for people to join | |||
**mesh networking app in appstores | |||
**add something fun to make them want to install the app, like a game or a visualization | |||
**as long as they play once in a while, they route traffic (tamagochi effect) | |||
*one-stop shop router reflashing | |||
**flash your Linksys WAP, automatically have mesh networking support active in the background | |||
*TonidoPlug? | |||
*datacomm over | |||
**shortwave | |||
***Note: requires more than two hams to participate | |||
**FRS (been done before but would be an interesting experiment) | |||
**GMRS (been done before but would be an interesting experiment) | |||
**laser pointer with a photocell receiver | |||
**incoherent light [http://ronja.twibright.com/ Ronja] | |||
**Sneakernet with rsync-like functionality (project: mnemonic?) | |||
**Slideshow | |||
**One relatively large video screen | |||
**One relatively decent webcam (not hard) | |||
**Video screen displays sequences of 2D barcodes | |||
**Computer with webcam reads and decodes barcodes | |||
***Reminds me a bit of Conway's Game of Life as a network technology. | |||
*Fidomail-like transfer and synchronization of data bundles | |||
**dialup | |||
**tight-beam datacomm of some kind | |||
**sneakernet (project: mnemonic?) | |||
**Cross-technology implementation | |||
***Web forums | |||
***Microblogs | |||
***Blogs | |||
***BBS software | |||
*Automated sending and decoding of Morse code | |||
**Might not be all that fast but would be easy to implement and fun to test the bandwidth of. | |||
*How could we abuse SMS for this? | |||
*Mobile nodes | |||
**Someone sets up a (small) node in their car and drives around slowly. | |||
**Set up in a backpack or under a coat | |||
***On bicycle | |||
***On rollerblades | |||
***On skateboard | |||
***ON UAV | |||
***On a balloon | |||
=Project= | =Project= | ||
Revision as of 17:00, 10 February 2011
Meetings Thursdays at 7:30ish starting 10 Feb 2011
Brainstorming
Directions
Which way will we head with this?
- support Networking_Strategic_Simulation
- community wifi
- cold hard maxout of the current tech
- Development of communication devices with readily available (i.e., cheap) technology.
- Communication technology which lends itself to improvisational construction.
What Next?
After we have our direction what are we gonna do?
- define coverage
- building
- block
- neighborhood
- city
- intercity
- regional
- infinite (assuming it will grow with the technology's ability to support it)
- audience - who's gonna use this
- purpose - what will this be used for (surfing the web or just email/twitter/<insert favorite text service here>)
- Use case - circumstances under which this technology will usually be deployed
- disaster
- communication infrastructure failure
- censorship
Aproaches
Mesh
What will our approach to the network level of the mesh be?
- broadcast
- "actor" oriented - assume no knowledge in other nodes
- nested - roll with what exists and use it to connect seperate traditional nets
- Hybrid
- clients communicate using wifi with hubs
- hubs relay traffic using one of the mesh networking protocols
Extension
If we need to augment our mesh to cover our target area how will we do that?
- "same stuff but on a larger physical scale"
- mesh nodes with more broadcast power
- some mesh nodes also have point-to-point links with each other
- tight-beam RF
- optical
- laser
- incoherent light
- a higher order traditional network
Crazy Ideas
- viral node generation - present captive portals on carriers that require the user to become a "infected" and themselves present captive portals to other non infected devices (zombie smartphone apocalypse)
- make it easy and fun for people to join
- mesh networking app in appstores
- add something fun to make them want to install the app, like a game or a visualization
- as long as they play once in a while, they route traffic (tamagochi effect)
- one-stop shop router reflashing
- flash your Linksys WAP, automatically have mesh networking support active in the background
- TonidoPlug?
- datacomm over
- shortwave
- Note: requires more than two hams to participate
- FRS (been done before but would be an interesting experiment)
- GMRS (been done before but would be an interesting experiment)
- laser pointer with a photocell receiver
- incoherent light Ronja
- Sneakernet with rsync-like functionality (project: mnemonic?)
- Slideshow
- One relatively large video screen
- One relatively decent webcam (not hard)
- Video screen displays sequences of 2D barcodes
- Computer with webcam reads and decodes barcodes
- Reminds me a bit of Conway's Game of Life as a network technology.
- shortwave
- Fidomail-like transfer and synchronization of data bundles
- dialup
- tight-beam datacomm of some kind
- sneakernet (project: mnemonic?)
- Cross-technology implementation
- Web forums
- Microblogs
- Blogs
- BBS software
- Automated sending and decoding of Morse code
- Might not be all that fast but would be easy to implement and fun to test the bandwidth of.
- How could we abuse SMS for this?
- Mobile nodes
- Someone sets up a (small) node in their car and drives around slowly.
- Set up in a backpack or under a coat
- On bicycle
- On rollerblades
- On skateboard
- ON UAV
- On a balloon