Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon Radio Edition

[pyconaut (Ryan Sternlicht)]

Hello all, I wanted to let people know that there is a special Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon is going on right now. We are building small LoRa radio modules and OP25 GNUradio systems to turen into emergency radio mesh network for people to use around the bay during emergencies, power outages, cell disruptions, and events where the cell networks might be overloaded.

you can find info on how to help here.
https://www.aaronswartzday.org/virtual-hackathon/

https://www.aaronswartzday.org/virtual-hackathon-faq/

another project we are improving is the Swartz Manning VR Museum that Lisa, Me, LXPK, Bernice, and a few others started in 2017.
that project can be found here

swartz-manning-museum

A few noisebridgers are already involved, and thought that some of you would also be interested as well.

[James]

Continuing the discussion from Meeting Notes Transcript from 06/16/2020 as markdown:

I was reading the meeting notes and fyi Sudoroom is developing “disaster radio” for communicating with solar-powered lora radios via Secure Scuttlebutt. This would make a good extension to text messages, as it would allow additional communication options using those lora devices + is solar.

• Disaster.radio website is at https://disaster.radio
• Build guide
• Chat about the project is on people’s open
• Mailing list for the project.

@system

Aaron Swartz Day Hackathon updates

LoRa:

Emergency LoRa network creation (antennae, repeaters, phone connectivity
and messaging software) Project Lead: Matteo Github for this LoRa
project: https://github.com/AaronSwartzDay-SSP/LoRa

Basically, this network is for the worst case scenario – which doesn’t
seem as unlikely as it used to seem – where – after we have lost all
internet wifi and even cell phone reception, we could still be able to
send text messages to each other over our own emergency LoRa network.

[James]

Awesome, what are the details and differences between the two?

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On Tue, Jun 23, 2020, 5:00 PM pyconaut via Noisebridge <noreply@discuss.noisebridge.info> wrote:

	pyconaut Ryan Sternlicht MetaGuild, VR Guild June 23

we know about disaster radio and are trying to work with them on the project, our system would be very similarr but have a few key differences.

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Continuing the discussion from Meeting Notes Transcript from 06/16/2020 as markdown: I was reading the meeting notes and fyi Sudoroom is developing “disaster radio” for communicating with solar-powered lora radios via Secure Scuttlebutt. This would make a good extension to text messages, as it wou…

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[elimisteve (Steve Phillips)]

Yeah I am also curious about this.

[pyconaut (Ryan Sternlicht)]

we know about disaster radio and are trying to work with them on the project, our system would be very similarr but have a few key differences.