The advice on using 10.n.x.2 and enabling inward- facing browsing from the internet seems sound. It sounds like a good starting point along with one additional purchase:
a webcam connected to the Mac and router, with its image placed on the page above the most recent post.
Loan the entire system to one of the cafe owners, with these stipulations:
1) They need to mount the camera with a sign saying "look through me: Surf to 10.1.1.2".
2) You will be moving the entire system to one of the other cafes in 1 month - but the original cafe can keep the webcam going in their own cafe by buying their own webcam(s) and access point.
I love people-watching in cafes and this would put a whole new perspective on it. How soon until people start doing goofy things near the camera - just to hear the laughter elsewhere in the cafe?
Once a second cafe "buys in" then you can create the mesh between the two cafes. Oh yeah, and it distributes the cost more...
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...when they turned off the torrents For I was not a torrent user...
... hundreds of people in geek-infested cities all shouting "First!" into their cell phones.
a webcam connected to the Mac and router, with its image placed on the page above the most recent post.
Loan the entire system to one of the cafe owners, with these stipulations:
1) They need to mount the camera with a sign saying "look through me: Surf to 10.1.1.2".
2) You will be moving the entire system to one of the other cafes in 1 month - but the original cafe can keep the webcam going in their own cafe by buying their own webcam(s) and access point.
I love people-watching in cafes and this would put a whole new perspective on it. How soon until people start doing goofy things near the camera - just to hear the laughter elsewhere in the cafe?
Once a second cafe "buys in" then you can create the mesh between the two cafes. Oh yeah, and it distributes the cost more...