Wet WiFi – War Kayaking
p2pnet.net News:- War kayaking.
Kind of sends a shiver down your spine, don’t it? (And think of it the possibilities ; )
Phillip Torrone did. So he went for a self-propelled cruise on Lake Union in Seattle, Washington, not that far from p2pnet’s home base on Vancouver Island in Canada. Kayaking country.
“Of course, we couldn’t help but bring along a lot of equipment and decided we’d hunt for open wireless spots,” says Torrone on engadget here.
And he “found a ton, charted it with GPS, Wifi finders …”
That’s all you get for now. Torrone promises to explain how the feat was managed on Tuesday’s engadget HOW-TO. In the meanwhile, below what you’ll need to get rolling. Sorry. Paddling.
- Pocket PC 2215 + Symbol Wireless card
- Sony Ericsson p900 phone
- Garmin Forerunner GPS watch
- Sony t1 5 Megapixel camera
- Motorola i730 phone
- One energy bar
- One bottle of water (16 ounces)
All the gear was placed in plastic bags and sealed.
“One more thing,” says Torrone. “Before we left we installed ‘WifiFoFum’ a wireless tool for the Pocket PC which gives a pretty good radar-like display of Wifi spots and also saves the log. It?s small, fast, free and works great. It also reminds us of those ?Fish Finders? which was somewhat fitting.” http://www.wififofum.org/
Head over to engadget for the full monty, and for now, Torrone passed p2pnet several things to bear in mind, namely:
- Keep all the gear away from water, sealed up, etc…
- Don’t paddle near tons of people in their houseboats/biz/boats, some dude with a “device” tends to weird people out.
- Add an extra 45 minutes to your planned kayaking, that’s the time it’ll take to get readings etc…
- Don’t set the device to turn off, ppcs are set to turn off after 5 min usually.
- Don’t forget to bring a snack.
- Don’t forget to bring gloves, you can blister easily paddling.
- Sunscreen, don’t forget.
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June 23rd, 2004 at 2:34 am
heh, dont forget to get a life too