RaspberyPiratebox
So yeah, this was something I had in mind for one of the RPis…and playing around in the shell tonight I realized I had been caught up in having worked in the cramped spaces of routers and chumbys….in a RPi there is so much damn room and tools (and aptget) to really get into trouble. Â For instance….
-Streaming netcast/shoutcast server….put the link on the craptive portal page…queue it up with whatever propaganda/music/spoken word/experimental sounds. Same for moving images, a nice little vlc instance serving up a playlist of good stuff… think about PirateMovieNight at your local hangout…ya know everyone has a device that can connect…yep. Bonus, if you have accesss to a hdmi able big screen or projector….well bobs your uncle.Â
-If you added a second wifi device you could have your pirate box latch on to an existing wifi network and proxy traffic from the piratebox wifi device to it. Alternatively you culd play with meshing, have pirate boxes sensing each other and sharing the wealth.Â
-Pirate Radio Station… Add a souped up FM transmitter to the audio out and advertise the frequency on the captive portal page. You can either have a precanned playlist or let the users pick/upload &pick. Would be great for gatherings, actions and protests. Make a few of them, mesh/synch playlists or simply repeater them.Â
Oh the possibilities…..anyone else working on these sorts of things?
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