[MLB-WIRELESS] A sneak preview of Musenk

[Will Lanigan]

we have a working group on such things :D
http://www.wireless.org.au/wiki/?WGSolarPower

the answer is yes, you can have such a beast - money is the only constraint
it doesn't require a great amount of power to keep an AP running 24/7 off a
deep-cycle battery and solar trickle charge.

----- Original Message -----
From: "Jon" <jon at webprophets.net.au>
To: "Melbourne Wireless List" <melbwireless at wireless.org.au>
Sent: Wednesday, April 17, 2002 1:10 PM
Subject: Re: [MLB-WIRELESS] A sneak preview of Musenk


> Apols if anybody gets this twice, it seems to have failed to send for some
reason.
>
> Anybody got any power-consumption estimates for such a box ?
> Eg. could one be left alone trickle-charging from a solar cell, only
turning on for
> a period in its duty-cycle when it had enough oomph stored up ?
>
>
> Jon
>
>
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> >
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> >
> > Jon
> >
> > Clae wrote:
> >
> > > At 5:58 PM +1000 16/4/02, Denis Dowling wrote:
> > >
> > > >What we want is a small embedded CPU board with PCMCIA, Ethernet and
enough
> > > >ram and flash to run a cut down Linux. Would be a nice project.
> > >
> > > Low power consumption would be nice, too, for remote-power
> > > applications.  I imagine he 500 mA @ 12V requirement of the WL200
> > > would be  hard to beat in a home built solution.
> > >
> > > Count me in too.  I know bugger all about this stuff, but I like to
watch :)
> > >
> > > Clae.
> > >
> > > >  > Barry Park wrote:
> > >
> > > >  > I can't see any reason why Melbourne Wireless couldn't develop
> > > >  > our own AP using
> > > >>  embedded Linux. There are plenty of talented hardware and
> > > >>  software hacker in the
> > > >>  group.
> > > >>
> > > >>  Email me and I'll gauge if there is enough interest to form a
> > > >  > working group.
> > > >  >
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> I've played piano in a whorehouse.  I've smuggled secret papers out of
Russia...I've
> taught a gangster mob how to play Pinchie Winchie, sat on the floor with
Greta
> Garbo, horsed around with the Prince of Wales, played ping-pong with
George
> Gershwin.  George Bernard Shaw has asked me for advice.  I've basked on
the Riviera
> with Somerset Maugham and Elsa Maxwell.  I've been thrown out of the
casino at Monte
> Carlo.
>
>        - Harpo Marx
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