SeattleWireless TV: Flickenger, Warcopter, And More

Michael Pierce writes "SeattleWireless TV has done it again! This months SeattleWireless TV show features an Interview with Rob Flickenger the inventor of the pringles cantenna and co-author of Nocat, an open source wireless captive portal. Then we have a chance to hear from Risto Koiva about his remote controlled helicopter with a 2.4ghz installed camera and gps unit, learn about the Personal Telco Project out of Portland, Oregon and finally a product review on the new WatchGuard SoHo 6 wireless firewall. Download the Mpeg version here or Watch the Windows Media Stream here, or the RealPlayer stream here."

Comments

since this seems like a representative post ...

[timothy]

To respond to several at once, I'm just picking this one randomly :)

Re:Is the the slasdot version of text ads?

"It seems more like a product advertisement than anything else. May be this is an ad disguised as a story?"

Err ... an ad for what, exactly? What product do you mean?

Seattle Wireless is an amateur group who are putting a lot of their own money and time into creating a complex network in the Seattle / Tacoma area, and (in this case) producing / distributing a show about wireless technologies *because they think they're cool.*

Personal Telco is trying to blanket Portland with free 802.11 access. Sounds like a fun, laudable idea to me.

I posted this because I admire what these groups are doing, and want to see similar things happen around the world. (And they are happening -- BAWAG, consume.net, etc etc.)

(If I could only persuade these groups to contribute a portion of their gigantic profits to slashdot... hmmm, idea quickly retracted as complete nonsense ;))

timothy