By Elektra Aichele, on February 19th, 2010
We have now a new over-voltage protection circuit design for the mass production Mesh-Potatos. We were not satisfied with the previous version. Ideally the over-voltage protection circuit has a snap-on characteristic that triggers the fuse and interrupts the supply voltage without a grey zone. The new circuit triggers at 43 Volts and acts as a [...]
By Steve Song, on August 6th, 2009
It is just a little over a year since the first Village Telco workshop in June 2008 and having recently completed second Village Telco workshop from the 20th to the 24th of July, it has taken a little longer than I expected to get this post out about the event. Similar to the first [...]
By Steve Song, on May 6th, 2009
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 [...]