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mai ishikawa sutton edited this page Sep 18, 2019 · 2 revisions

Meeting Sep 17 2019

Attendees

  • Fitz
  • Marc
  • Jenny
  • Mai
  • Grant
  • Scott

Specs

  • 100 or so by November to get to stability
  • Power source
    • Solar solution?
      • Off-the-shelf charger for the battery, detachable from board
    • Pluggable as well
    • Aim for 50

Next steps

  • juul: i have time for software and nic has time for the case design. need help with hardware design

  • For small batches can just use off-the-shelf modules for the solar charger and battery setup, and the esp32 board - wouldn't be cheaper

  • grant: ttgo board already set up for esp32s - would need to hook up a second lora module to it

  • small batch of 10-50, see how much it ends up costing

  • grant: there's a fork of our repo, someone's already written a port to the esp32

  • Questions for Nico

    • How many to take around? 10~20: 4 units would be ok. 3+1 if one has solar.

Next steps

Goals

  • Timeline: End of November for Nico to beta-test in India

Use Cases

  • Disaster scenarios
  • Off-grid uses

Circuit Board Design

  • Getting to stability
  • Improvements?
  • Fixes?

First Call 8/14/2019

Participants

  • Jenny
  • Marc
  • Nico
  • Mai

Discussion

  • $2,500 from APC for Disaster Radio
    • We need to use it before the end of the year
    • They need a proposal from us about how it will be used
  • Purpose of funds
    • For longtail of tech development
    • APC likes investing in tech dev, not fundraising
  • Plan on how it will be used
    • Describe where we are with the project, where it will be used, where it will take us
    • Another opportunity to apply for $ from Mozilla: mozilla.com/moss
    • Using SSB over Disaster Radio
  • Ideas on how to use funding
    • Pay people to work on circuitboard layout, enclosure, software
    • Develop use cases for beta-testing deployments
      • Ex. Nico is going to Tanzania/India, he could go there and beta-test it in the forest there
      • Develop bare minimum proof of concept

Funding Opportunities

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