[Powerstation-discuss] Hi from Tokyo Hackerspace

[Akiba]

Hi Rubin. 
Glad to be a part. There are other people in the OSHW community itching to
join in too. Taylan can answer the questions related to the phone charger.

For the FM transmitter, Nick and I were thinking about it as a potential PA
replacement since its cheap, can be battery powered, and portable. I believe
most smart phones have an FM tuner as well (my HTC android does) but I could
be wrong. If you think that's not the way to go, let me know. 

Is there help needed in WiFi distribution? Perhaps we can look into ways to
get info out to other occupy groups on how to efficiently setup and
distribute a wifi link. 

Akiba
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: powerstation-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net
> [mailto:powerstation-discuss-bounces at lists.noisebridge.net] On Behalf Of
> Rubin Abdi
> Sent: Saturday, November 19, 2011 7:44 AM
> To: chris at freaklabs.org
> Cc: powerstation-discuss at lists.noisebridge.net
> Subject: Re: [Powerstation-discuss] Hi from Tokyo Hackerspace
> 
> Akiba wrote, On 2011-11-17 17:25:
> > This is Akiba from Tokyo Hackerspace. I just joined this mailing list
and
> > hope to talk about things Tokyo Hackerspace can do to assist on the tech
> > side of the occupy effort. Three things we're working on right now:
> 
> Hi Akiba. You guys rock! I was starting to worry that no other hacker
> spaces were going to join in on this Hackupy thing. Also it was fun
> video chatting with folks from your space a few nights ago via Nick Farr.
> 
> > 1)       Phone chargers - We have phone charger kits that we made after
the
> > tsunami to take power from car batteries and convert it to 5V to charge
> > phones with. We sent 4 kits with MCT and the schematics can be found
here:
> >
> > http://taylanayken.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/12v-phone-charger-v2-0/
> 
> This is awesome. A few of us here will be happy to see them.
> 
> > 2)       FM radio transmitter - We're investigating a small FM radio
> > transmitter that can be used to broadcast people that are speaking
locally.
> > At Zucotti Park, we heard that hearing is very difficult and the human
mic
> > relay is being used. A full PA system will be difficult to have as a
> > portable system so a small FM transmitter of about 1W or so might be a
> > better option to broadcast to everyone.
> 
> I was thinking about coming up with a wifi/internet system of streaming,
> FM works good but I wonder how many people will actually have radios here.
> 
> > 3)       Centralized link repository - Simple, but there is no
centralized
> > place we found for information. We're going to try and collect links
into
> a
> > centralized wiki repo.
> 
> Yeah this has been a problem I've been looking into too.
> http://occupywiki.org is crap. Feel free to use hackerspaces.org!
> 
> --
> Rubin
> rubin at starset.net