On the Internet, it’s quite easy to find people with similar interests. When I first started thinking about building out a mesh network in my neighborhood, a quick search led me to the Toronto Mesh, a very active group which actively contributes to the global mesh building community. But no active members live near me.
In a smaller area, you might know all of your neighbors, but it would be unlikely that you would find someone with the same interest.
August 2017 UPDATE: I have taken down my node as I was not able to generate enough interest. Please reach out if you’re interested in building out the mesh.
A mesh network is a network where all participants can communicate with each other, with each participant cooperating with the transmission of information.
Although I can’t think of a practical application for myself, I think it would be fun to build, and I would like to start a wireless mesh network in Willowdale/North York.
In the car, I like to use my phone for playing podcasts and directions. My work phone was recently upgraded, and I was looking for a practical way to mount it.
As cars are kept for years, and phones change regularly, I didn’t want:
The neatest design I’ve seen so far is a steering column mount on Thingiverse, which I had been thinking of modifying for my phone. As my car has a two-tiered dashboard, I thought I would just create a dock that fit my phone in the lower tier.
While in high school, I bought a really cool rack mount amplifier at a garage sale. It was branded Queon, and had lots of inputs - it was great. It was supplemented during my university years with an 8-track player/amp combo, acquired from Value Village. The Queon met its end when a roommates’ cat knocked over a vessel of water that had been rested on top of the amp. The 8-track player/amp combo met its end in a post-university move.
I finally moved my weather station from a solder-less breadboard to a prototype board. I’m actually surprised the breadboard survived last winter.
Until I get around to adding an anemometer and rain gauge, this is probably as far as this project is going to go.
Last winter, I built an SIO2Arduino circuit - it is an adapter, that enables the Atari to use disk images loaded on to a regular SD card.
To the Atari, the SD card works just like a floppy drive. It’s was built following the instructions found here: http://whizzosoftware.com/sio2arduino/
