[geeks] Fun Topic: What do you carry?

Joshua Boyd jdboyd at jdboyd.net
Fri Dec 28 14:21:45 CST 2007


On Fri, Dec 28, 2007 at 02:25:19PM -0600, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> On Thu, 27 Dec 2007, Mike Hebel wrote:
> 
> > Aren't you still carrying around the EVDO dongle as well?
> 
> It lives in the backpack with all the other USB stuff.  Wherever I go, I
> have network access.
> 
> I'd like to take one of $ork's low-power evaluation boards and turn it
> into a truck PC that would act as a wireless access point (and provide a
> semipermanent home for the EVDO dongle).  Combined with a little squid
> and Google Ads magic, I could not only have network access everywhere,
> but also share it with others and get some tiny trickle of cash back.

I've long wanted a car network access port.  I didn't think of the
reselling idea though.



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