an easy-to-use, scalable, standards-based, wireless, local, do-it-yourself, telephone company toolkit
In the recent weeks I have been busy working on the software for the Mesh-Potato together with David Rowe. Amongst other things I have set up and maintained a Openwrt repository for our project on Sourceforge, as you probably already know. We had to work on the bleeding edge of OpenWRT [...]
Well I have just finished a fun and productive couple of months working with Elektra and Steve on Milestone 1 (M1) of the Mesh Potato project. The goal of M1 was to prototype the Mesh Potato firmware. In particular, I wasn’t sure if the low end CPUs we would like to use could [...]
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 [...]
Momentum is picking up with the Village Telco. Here’s an update on where we are:
The Mesh Potato
I’m very happy to say that the Shuttleworth Foundation has completed agreements with David Rowe and Elektra and that they are now hard at work on the production of a Mesh Potato proof-of-concept. David has just posted a fairly [...]
