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Mobile Wireless at Tempe Presidential Debate
badcataz writes "Presidential debate goers in Tempe, Arizona might find a
strange looking electric vehicle providing wireless service.
WAZ Tempe has
modified and Italian
Electic car to extend their downtown Tempe network using a 1 Watt Tropos
5110 wireless mesh node."
The electric carts are manufactured in Italy by the World Alternative Transportation Technologies Corpration (W.A.T.T. Corp). This particular model is called "Teener E". It is a small, enclosed two passenger electric vehicle powered by rechargable batteris and driven by an electric motor. It can climb up to 18% grade steep hills. It's speed does not exceed 35 mph and has a range of 50 miles. Full battery recharge is 4 hours. It complies with all Federal Motor Safety Standards (ie. seatbelt, roll cage, emergency brakes, etc.)
The WiFi transmit/receiver unit on the cart has range of 1 mile (1.6 km) compare to standard WiFi equipment of 300 - 500 ft. It runs on Linux operating system, able to auto-recognize and auto-configure into local WiFi mesh. Various businesses in downtown Tempe area have given permission to Nasco's group to install WiFi units on their properties.
Nasco is also in contact with city of Tempe to further WiFi coverage, hopefully in next few years the city will be complete wireless.
Now that is an example of folks working well together for a common good. I wish my town would do that. But, they will not even allow a single cell site so we barely have cellular phone service out here much less wifi. Oh, well, to some, the lack of cell phone service is seen as a benefit.
Here is another interesting article about Tropos: Mesh could be the solution to a proposed $1 billion wireless municipal network for New York City emergency workers.
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...the electronics van for prompting George W. Bush. ;)
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You know someone is going to say that this is part of the method through which they are feeding W answers. I must be psychic or something.
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There will be mobile wireless OTHER than under the President's suit jacket?
Imagine a beowolf cluster of these!
They could use more power.
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They actually use these as substitutes when parts of their WiFi network go down... Fast, mobile, cute and powerfull, can we ask for something more? :)
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I want an electric car like that one. I would drive it to school everyday. I wish there was a feasable, small electric car that could do at least 70 for interstate driving though :(
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...to ASU. Unfortunately I'm not seeing the network (about 2 miles directly south). Might be time to put the ibook in the bookbag! I have plans to leave in about 10 minutes to watch the Foo Fighters (yeah yeah) anways.
Although, I do own a Fab-Corp Antenna and a Linksys WRTGS router with the new firmware. Any ideas?
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Heh, an electric Italian car. Where to begin...do you need to remove the passenger seat to charge it?
Well, on the bright side, at least it wasn't made by Lucas. If it had been, the wifi unit would only work if the handbrake light was blown and the left turn signal was on.
But, dear god, don't pull the handbrake!
Please help metamoderate.
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Has anyone actually seen evidence of the mystery earpiece? How about running a frequency scanner near one of his speeches? With a really directional antenna, you should be able to pick up on the heterodyne feedback.
Unless they've got spread-spectrum stuff packed into something that small, which would be pretty impressive.
Please help metamoderate.
you'd have to reverse the polarity to make it work
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modified and Italian Electric car
How do you Italian a car? My guess it involves either a sledgehammer or a team of monkeys.
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playing doom 3 online while sitting in the debate hall. either that or downloading porn.
i thought there where strict limits on RF ERP for WiFi ? or can we can we all go and setup 1W transmitters and damm the interference complaints ?
hell if its unlicensed and unrestricted why stop at 1W lets have 50 and 200W
When I was there (approx. 2 weeks ago) the theater had an open wireless network. I spent most of the first act of my show browsing /.
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Both candidates simply recycled their flawed math of the previous debates and spewed feel good oratories while managing to avoid the real issues almost entirely.
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We got us a new president.
Kerry got into America's comfort zone in debate one, showed us he can be a fighter in debate 2, and became this "zen master" in debate 3. I really didn't expect such a strong showing from Kerry. Along with his politics I think he just won over the last of the undecideds.
I guess the square thing under his jacket is his 802.11 antenna.
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There are more pictures available on Tian.cc, the source of the Gizmodo photo.
All direct from a guy living in Tempe.
Just the thing for an election.
Tonight's Bush content brought to you by a partnership between WAZ Tempe and Karl Rove's laptop microphone.
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A cursory glance at this story, and I sooo thought someone had blown the lid of the whole Bush wears a wire thing. But it was not to be :)
I think there is a world market for maybe five personal web logs.
It's cool to be able to watch the debate broadcasted on the internet.
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If true, it means, he has a good team around him. Which is fine by me.
You seriously wouldn't care if the President is wearing a wire at the debates... I'm sure business and political leaders at home and abroad would agree with you and continue to take him seriously after finding out he can't think on his feet or remember details accurately, and is effectively a puppet.
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Better looking than both Bush and Kerry, and all the post debate analysts. Debate night at least had something of intrest happening. It seems a shame such a nice piece of equipment went to waste assisting in the broadcast of the usual Democrat vs Republican showdown.
....the first or only wireless mesh network in Tempe, AZ. I have built 5 wireless mesh nodes using Locustworld for my WISP www.SpyderNet.org I cover Copper Creek (Southern Ave & Mc Clintock) in Tempe, AZ. My nodes can offer speeds from 64kbits/s to 6mbit/s upload and download depending on tier. I built all 5 of my nodes in the same standard, pigtails, cables, 8-12dbi omnis. While I don't want to disclose the exact ammount I paid.. it was in the 1000-2000 dollar range and my network is no BS it really works.. even supports VOIP over WIFI and WIFI roaming for clients between nodes.. even bluetooth phones can connect if i add the module.. Please check out Locustworld.. they are the shizzle hands down!! -baked
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I was walking down Mill Ave today when I saw that little car. I thought it was one of those Mercedez Smart Car's tricked out for a wheel-chair bound person. So yah, obviously I didn't get to spend much time admiring it as I had to get to the computer lab and write a linux kernel module for my cse-421 microprocessor design class.
w00t ASU!
modified and Italian Electic car
What was I thinking? This is slashdot!
2. More pictures of the electric car w/ antenna.
3. They mention a 1-watt power WiFi box. Is that legal? I thought the power of these devices was limited to 100mW..
You got screwed which isn't right.