Thought you might like to see my cool rig on my city issued ex-police cruiser. I have outfitted my car with high speed wireless internet. It connects to one of the many internet access points that I have been busy installing around Elk City. I can pretty much get internet anywhere in town now.
The chief of police saw the car the other day and he wasn't to thrilled about the prospects of all his cop cars being outfitted with Martian looking antennas. I told him that this was just the prototype, the actual finished product will hopefully have much bigger antennas thus making it much cooler in my eyes :)
Here's the inside. You can see my laptop and my massive power converter (1500 watts) I can probably run a small town from my car. My goal is not to ever have to leave my car. The end product will report it's GPS location to a central server that I am writing software for, and it will also be it's own access point so that you can take the laptop from the car and the car will act as a relay to the wider wifi network.
This is my signal splitter that takes the signal from the two antennas on the roof and combines them for the radio to interpret and magically turn into data. The range is really good on this, and the unit that is in my console is very good about switching from access point to access point as I drive down the road. Because of my brilliant network design I have uninterrupted communication as I roam from AP to AP.
Just in case some of you may have thought that I had ceased being a geek...
4 comments:
You're one sick puppy! By the way, where's the toilet?
I'm in hot(spot) pursuit...guih guih guih (think rosco P coletrain)
wow...bet the kiddos LOVE ridin' around it THAT?! HEE HEE.
Oh, Chad M. is on myspace now. He's on my friends. http://www.myspace.com/martifamily
I gave him your websites to look at.
Tell Julie HI!
Steph.
That's Chad Martin referenced on Steph's post for those of you who grew in Fairview.
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