A group of us were interested in the Graffiti Research Lab’s Throwies and decided to try some for Fiesta in San Antonio. A throwie is an LED, small battery, and a strong rare earth magnet. The cost on all of these items is now low enough that you can make the throwies for under 50 [...]
dailywireless.org – WiFi Routers for Cars Daily Wireless has a small roundup of Stompbox alternatives. All of them are cheaper and at least one offers a GPS option. Travelers this summer will be able to stay plugged in at broadband speeds using The WavBoard CM3 ($379.00), by Omniwave, one of the first broadband cellular routers [...]
I gave my first stompbox presenation at the XCSSA meeting in San Antonio tonight. It was a good mix of old and young geeks, mostly hardware afficianados with a love of the non-standard. I hope everyone enjoyed my first attempt at presenting to a user group. it was good to meet new people and I’ll [...]
The family and I made a spur of the moment trip to Galveston this weekend and took the stompbox with us. I didn’t spend anytime on line but my wife was able to surf the web and IM with people for the whole trip. The connection didn’t drop once in 250 miles.
Price It’s quite expensive for a toy. I had a hard time justifying the cost to myself but the old laptop I was using had some issues and I didn’t expect it to last long. My wife wasn’t too happy with the expense but she got over it this weekend when she was able to [...]
Configuration By now you should have a login prompt in your serial console. Login as root, no password and run the stompbox config script, /usr/local/bin/initial-setup. The questions are pretty self explanatory. If you don’t know the answer to a question, take the default. I don’t have a camera or gpsd setup but it still asked [...]