Since the 2nd Village Telco Workshop in July we have been working on the Beta release of the Mesh Potatoes. Progress slowed immediately after the workshop – I think we all needed a break and some time to organise the resources (e.g. test equipment, prototype manufacture and people) required for the next phase of [...]
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Since my previous post I have been stuck in “boot loader hell” for 3 days! On day 1 I placed the ap61.rom file and had the MP boot loader working but flash support was missing. So i took the redboot-ap61 code that Elektra had prepared and tried to flash it. Clunk – [...] The first Mesh Potato Yesterday (Monday June 1) the courier arrived with the very first Mesh Potato (MP) prototype, which had been hand assembled by the good people at Atcom. This is always an exciting and risky time in the life of any hardware project, as you don’t really know if it’s going to [...] As part of the proof-of-concept work around the Mesh Potato, David and Elektra have more or less settled on the Atheros AR2317 chip as a likely candidate for the Mesh Potato. This is partly because it is a very affordable chip yet still has all the features needed for the Mesh Potato but also because [...] |
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