Previously I waxed poetic about the amazing powers of Serval to create mesh based Internet infrastructure for developing and less developed countries (LDCs). The thesis being that if we had meshe...
Smart phones are showing up in the poorest of countries. Even the Internet is showing up but it’s still quite expensive. But for a reasonable price we can deploy Wifi based local mesh infrastru...
I needed to figure out how many Wifi endpoints which had a range of around 300 feet would be needed to form a mesh that covers a square mile. I do a bunch of 1/2 baked math below to estimate that...
Serval is a project that wants to enable mobile phones to work no matter what. They have built mesh technology to let mobiles make voice calls as well as share data and have an app available on A...
I went to SF to meet with folks from the city of SF to discuss how we could use Thali to help improve recovery after a major earthquake. The meeting was both productive and eye opening. Our next ...
A big part of the Thali Project is running Node.js directly on “edge devices” like embedded hardware, phones, tablets, laptops, etc. I recently got asked why anyone would want to do this. My ...
https://www.goland.org/why-would-anyone-want-to-write-a-phone-app-that-embeds-node-js/
As I’ve previously discussed I want to get node.js running on Android, iOS and WinRT. But to make that happen we need to understand the node.js ecosystem and that includes native add-ons and no...
https://www.goland.org/node-gyp-and-node-js-on-mobile-platforms/
Twice in the last week or so I’ve had people ask me about using WebRTC with Thali. I’ve already addressed WebRTC and Thali here. But recently Dominique Legault pointed me at a very cool proje...
Node doesn’t really have an application model in the normal sense since Node sees itself as a server technology. But as Electron, NWJS, JXcore and JXcore-Cordova have shown there is a real need...
Google in Android release Marshmallow prevents applications from seeing their device’s local Bluetooth or WiFi MAC addresses. This puts a big roadblock in front of peer to peer apps. There is a...