Luca, that is a really good idea! How do we raise money? I can use some of my own money for a few dreamplugs but we'll need more money. Anybody?
On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 1:49 PM, Luca Dionisi <[email protected]>wrote: > On Mon, Feb 21, 2011 at 7:30 PM, Michael Grube <[email protected]> > wrote: > > The problem with this is that the readership involved with Slashdot and > > Boing Boing typically want some kind of working product to get excited > about > > first. It is a lot like advertising unfortunately. > > > > Of course if you have ideas for how we can do this without already having > > some kind of flashy, sexy demonstration(or at least a video for everybody > to > > watch) please share them! > > You want a video? We could arrange something like that: > > 1. Raise money. Buy tens of dreamplug[1] at 149$ each. > 2. Compile Stackless on one of those. It should be doable, though I > never tried. Install netsukuku on them. > 3. Deploy those plug computers in houses to form a quite wide mesh. I > am curious about the range you can cover with the radio chip built in > them, especially when passing several walls. > 4. Make a connection of some sort between very distant end nodes. The > end points could be laptops, instead of plug computers. > 5. Surf the Internet from a laptop connected to any one of the plug > computers. > 6. Make a professional video describing the deploy and the results. > 7. Profit. > > Since I do not know for sure that stackless will work on a ARM (there > is a bit of assembly language to take into account) I recommend this > test as step 0. > > > [1] > http://www.geek.com/articles/gadgets/dreamplug-puts-a-1-2ghz-arm-pc-in-a-power-outlet-2011022/ > _______________________________________________ > Netsukuku mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.dyne.org/mailman/listinfo/netsukuku >
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