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Open-Source Mesh Group Releases Software:
The CUWiN project wants to allow self-forming, noncentralized, mesh-based Wi-Fi networks using standard, old PCs with no configuration. Slightly more advanced units could be ruggedized boxes using Compact Flash, but the basic unit would be a 486 or later PC with a bootable CD-ROM or bootable floppy that bootstraps a CD-ROM. Once booted, a unit finds other similar units without any other configuration or control and forms a mesh.
“We’ve been developing software now since about 2000, and our idea is to build software that is super user friendly, super easy for someone who doesn’t understand the nuances of the technology or community wireless networking to set up their own system,” said Meinrath. It’s an attempt to enable community networking to spread beyond the folks who are self-starters.
Here is a post with lots of links to very serious deep thinking on this subject. I should have some more to say, and some more specific pointers when I get done plowing through this fascinating stuff.
A completely killer 2 MP camera phone from Samsung that, if the past is any indication, will never ever be released in the U.S.