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 the [...]
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We have made good progress on the Mesh Potato (MP) so far. The basic functionality (making phone calls over a Wifi Mesh network) is working OK. Over the past few weeks Elektra and I have been concentrating on several specific areas of the MP and testing them in more depth. This posts focuses [...] 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 a [...] 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 June [...] 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 work. [...] |
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