by Tdarcos » Wed Jul 08, 2015 12:29 pm
BBC World Service radio reports about a woman working on this for Third-World countries. It's called the Banana Pi. It's a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino or some other single-board computer, a transparent plastic case, wi-fim adapter, a 10-watt solar panel and battery with a transformer / inverter so it can be converted to a USB power supply and run even when the sun is not shining or run at night. Will have a 32GB memory card preloaded with a lot of things including music and movies, plus a web server so some of these people in those areas that have smart phones or tablets will have something to connect to and things to look at, like a Web experience even where there's no Internet.
Have you considered something like that? Put the 'Pi in the attic, either plugged in or hooked up to a battery and solar panel, and use a wi-fi to talk to it? SSL to log in or using the web server.
[i]BBC World Service[/i] radio reports about a woman working on this for Third-World countries. It's called the Banana Pi. It's a Raspberry Pi, an Arduino or some other single-board computer, a transparent plastic case, wi-fim adapter, a 10-watt solar panel and battery with a transformer / inverter so it can be converted to a USB power supply and run even when the sun is not shining or run at night. Will have a 32GB memory card preloaded with a lot of things including music and movies, plus a web server so some of these people in those areas that have smart phones or tablets will have something to connect to and things to look at, like a Web experience even where there's no Internet.
Have you considered something like that? Put the 'Pi in the attic, either plugged in or hooked up to a battery and solar panel, and use a wi-fi to talk to it? SSL to log in or using the web server.