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Bringing up Wifi On Friday I set about testing Wifi on the two Mesh Potato prototypes. The N-type antenna connectors attach to the MP PCB via a pigtail with a tiny Hi-rose style connector. This looks a bit fragile so I decided to mount the two MPs in some weatherproof boxes so I had [...] Since the boot loader bugs have been tamed we have been making steady progress. Today I brought the FXS module drivers up, closely followed by Asterisk and the first Mesh Potato phone call at 3:43pm today. Almost exactly 1 year since the Mesh Potato project was kicked off at the first Village Telco workshop in [...] 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 – [...] Hardware for First Mesh Potato Phone Call Yesterday we made the first phone call using the Mesh Potato (MP) Architecture – a very important moment in the life of any telephony project! The Prototype Mesh Potato hardware isn’t available yet, so we connected a DIR-300 router to a FXS Interface PCB. The DIR-300 [...] A couple of months ago, Antoine Van Gelder (pictured below), announced a new project called Afrimesh. Afrimesh is a web-based, mesh network management interface. Having a simple GUI for network management and monitoring is critical for the Village Telco, thus I was overjoyed to find out about Antoine’s work, which is being supported by the [...] A few weeks ago Elektra and I started Phase 2 of the Mesh Potato project. In Phase 2 we are working with Atcom to build the prototype Mesh Potato hardware. The first work package is hardware design. Elektra is working on hardening the various ports of the Mesh Potato against environmental and accidental damage. For example [...] |
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