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PV-powered mesh repeater and OLPC laptop? ultimate disaster tool!
By WDavidStephenson | August 14, 2007
I hadn’t realized until 
today that there’s a blog dedicated to news of Nick Negroponte’s great One Laptop Per Child project.
Better yet, there was a post by free community wireless builder Aaron Kaplan about his recent visit to the OLPC offices, where he noticed this Ãber-cool PV-powered 802.11 repeater (note the requisite OLPC lime green frame…)!!!
Wow: does this one hit my sweet spot:
- I’ve been drinking the PV Koolaid since I first started working with PV pioneer/visionary/ you-name-it Steve Strong back in 1979
- I’m a big fan of CUWiN’s free mesh networking software
- and I’ve always believed that the UN, FEMA or some other funding source should commission a OLPC variant specifically for disaster response, since it would be self-powered, and would create instant, self-organizing, self-healing networks.
Adding in a PV-powered mesh repeater is the icing on the cake. Way to go, OLPC!
BTW: This video is one of the best explanations I’ve seen about a mesh network’s virtues…
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