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HaLow 802.11ah Field Test – Round 1
Team SunOx finally started field testing HaLow (802.11ah) for range and speed. Here Erik and I are beside our antenna setting up our base station. Patrick is not in this photo who was also part of our test team. The short story is: at .4 miles we were able to steadily transmit about 3Mb. These are not great numbers as we were hoping for twice the distance at twice the speed. Alas this is test one and our Yagi antenna in this configuration could use some mathematical tweaking for efficiency. This is still far better than regular WiFi 802.11ac from your home for distance as they usually are good for…
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SunOx Screecher, solar powered EV
As I mentioned Vandelay Industries has partnered with SunOx earlier this year. When spending some time on the farm with Mr Delorme I had a chance to drive around the Screechers. They are a 100% solar powered golf cart which is about 15mph. Had much fun driving it around! Contact SunOx or myself for more details if your interested.
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Never Forget 9/11
On the morning of September 11th 2001, a normal sunny autumn morning, I was on my way to the office (Fidelity Investments) at the World Trade Center Boston. I was stepping off the shuttle bus from the Subway (Boston refers to the underground transportation as simply the T). I heard the news broadcast announcing the first plane had hit the World Trade Center New York. I was taken aback as stepping off but figured I head wrong or hadn’t sunk in yet. I made my way inside and the trading floor was like nothing I had seen in there before. Usually quiet and traders staring at screens had become a…
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New Partnership with SunOx
I’m proud to announce Art Vandelay has recently established a new partnership with SunOx. SunOx Farming the Sun is the brainchild of none other than David DeLorme of DeLorme Mapping and Garmin handheld emergency devices. David is a neighbor a few miles away and contacted me regarding SunOx. We will be working on future products for agricultural solar powered products in a small team. This involves embedded Linux robotics and radio based communications to accomplish this goal and happy to help out with such esteemed colleagues. Be sure to checkout the videos of the projects underway and their progress! So in addition to the long list of, hey I saw…
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Neatokeen CAD architect feature
A neat new feature in the Architectual software! I use Mitek software daily to design, which now allows me to have the 2D blueprint under my 3D CAD. A mostly useless feature, but just makes it pop and looks cool when aligning my measurements. The little things in life.
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Welcome to my WarZone
There is another side of the internet that we don’t see everyday or talk about, the silent war. The keyboard cowboys in the digital wild west. Today I setup a honeypot scanner today and within the first few minutes was able to visualize the constant bombardment internationally. Everyday I got people trying passwords, attempting to exploit me, nosey scanners who just want a peek, botnets trying to get a foothold, etc. These actors are not all bad, but most of them should seriously ask why they are watching me. I installed a honeypot setup called T-Pot which has many options for a network hive of honeypots all collecting data on…
