Internet in a Box
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Internet in a Box
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#2Confusing name.. It made me think it's some sort of alternative mesh network for the internet, or an alternative internet.
It's basically wikipedia and other things on an access point, right?
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#3For a second, I thought it was a reference to the IT Crowd.
Anyways, amazing initiative!
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#4Very cool device. The dean and doctor discussing the document they've been writing in Creole (context tells us it's probably a local dialect) could be uploaded to the device for everyone else that has them to use is a great reflection of how far this device can reach.
Agree with the other comment, not what I thought the device was going to be initially. Not everything needs a buzzword marketing name so it doesn't need to be like Doctr or something like that, but maybe Medic-in-a-Box or something that conveys this is a medical device.
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#5Amusing name, but if it's not networked in any way, it's not really 'internet', it's just an extract of various sources that's pretty much static in time.
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#6I love things like this, and I have a number of open wifi networks which could use this, but it seems people have gotten in to the habit of thinking that one service should run on one device, and that's all. It'd be nice if people would say what the software requirements are, regardless of the complexity of setup.
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#7A large omnidirectional antenna could be a decent addition?
The RPi inbuilt module doesn't have the much range, assume the other options are the same, antennas are cheap and even better can be homemade quite easily with instructions and raw materials.
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#8For a second, I thought it was a reference to the IT Crowd. Anyways, amazing initiative!
Missed an opportunity to replicate the iconic black casing and red LED
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#9I love things like this, and I have a number of open wifi networks which could use this, but it seems people have gotten in to the habit of thinking that one service should run on one device, and that's all. It'd be nice if people would say what the software requirements are, regardless of the complexity of setup.
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#10It's an offline stash of free knowledge, such as Wikipedia, Khan Academy, and OpenStreetMap.
It brought to mind El Paquete Semanal, Cuba's sneakernet culture drop: https://blog.cloudflare.com/the-cuban-cdn/