Re: [Server-devel] (probably) the world's highest solar powered schoolserver and mesh setup

2016-12-11 Thread Anish Mangal
Mikko wrote some more about the Leh installation. Here is part two. [Things I Learned Building the Skynet PART 2 — How to Eat Dust] https://medium.com/@skynet.admin/things-i-learned-building-the-skynet-part-2-how-to-eat-dust-1a0c78a48fc7#.oc1bzbwcs I also just returned from a month long trip to s

Re: [Server-devel] (probably) the world's highest solar powered schoolserver and mesh setup

2016-09-08 Thread Anish Mangal
Yes, we plan to put a temp & humidity logger in the box next time we deploy this (or maybe put one in these boxes). Frankly we didnt do much testing other than waterproofing testing before deploying this so would be very interesting to see how it holds up in the cold winters. Right now, we just us

Re: [Server-devel] (probably) the world's highest solar powered schoolserver and mesh setup

2016-09-07 Thread James Cameron
Good reading, thanks. Looking forward to more. The clear bottle packaging of the routers in the photographs is interesting. Looking at the climate data for Leh; https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leh#Climate my guess is that the bottle will make a good thermal environment; spending the most time wi

[Server-devel] (probably) the world's highest solar powered schoolserver and mesh setup

2016-09-07 Thread Anish Mangal
Hi, Earlier in the summer, me and a friend, Mikko, were in the high altitude himalayan valley of Leh, Ladakh[1], where we setup a schoolserver and a few mesh nodes - all solar powered. This is a report by Mikko on the setup, which I thought I'd share here :) https://medium.com/@skynet.admin/thin