Archive for the ‘wi-fi’ Category
Monday, June 16th, 2008
As planned, yesterday, Roland and I strapped N-series phones to our bikes, pulled along a wi-fi/WiMAX equipped trailer, and performed Le Tour Des Car Free Fests. As my Sportstracker data indicates (in two segments), we managed to visit three of the four main sites for Vancouver's Car Free Day.
Nokia Sportstracker ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, DTES, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, events, freethenet.ca, mobile, video, wi-fi | 1 Comment »
Wednesday, June 11th, 2008
Today we tested our live streaming video and GPS tracked bike commutes, this time using a third bike to pull the wifi mesh/wimax trailer.
I worked for about an hour this morning assembling the mounting clamps for the two phones on two bikes. Both worked very well and withstood many bumps. ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, Mobile Muse, culture & society, freethenet.ca, mobile, video, wi-fi | 3 Comments »
Sunday, June 8th, 2008
Today Roland and I mounted our Nokias (running Qik and Nokia Sportstracker Beta) on our bike helmets and rode around False Creek (see this map of our route, and see my Qikstream here). Due to rain, Scott (who was to supply our connectivity on a third bike, pulling a trailer ...
Posted in Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, freethenet.ca, mobile, technology, video, wi-fi | 5 Comments »
Friday, May 2nd, 2008
I exercise 5 days a week, and much of this is running. While I can be found in local gyms on occasion, I try to do as much of this running as possible for free. For in using a treadmill, with its diligent, brainless constancy, I subjugate my running activity ...
Posted in Actor network theory, Car Free Vancouver, Fearless City, GPS, LBS, Mobile Muse, SCOT, culture & society, mobile, technology, theory, wi-fi, work | 10 Comments »
Friday, October 5th, 2007
Cool stuff. Looks like our issues with Meraki changing their price points and feature sets may be over thanks to the efforts of these hackers:
www.merhaki.com
Posted in critical constructivism, freethenet.ca, open source, technology, wi-fi | No Comments »
Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Oct 2 (7 PM):
An update on the activities of Vancouver's free community wi-fi initiative. I'm in the meeting right now - we're talking tech, project visioning, and media messaging for the project. It's an energetic group, and you can view the all confabbing in the image at right. The project ...
Posted in freethenet.ca, internet, wi-fi | 2 Comments »
Monday, September 17th, 2007
I'm involved in the Vancouver Free the Net.ca initiative (though there may be disagreement over whether "initiative" is the appropriate word to describe it). VanFreetheNet is setting up ad hoc mesh networks in various parts of the city, partly in response to inertia and other issues related to the City ...
Posted in critical constructivism, freethenet.ca, internet, mobile, technology, wi-fi | 1 Comment »
