I met up with Dan Ryan over at ALTSpace and did some radio hacking tonight. He showed Ava and me how to disassemble, reset, and configure the Ubiquiti Nanostation Loco. You can get batches of ’em on ebay in unknown condition: out of the ten I bought for $60, two worked, six are broken, and two more still need to be tested. Not bad for an hour’s work.

The plan is to use these as part of the new Seattle Meshnet project. It’s not related to the old Seattle Wireless group, but it’s a similar idea: we’re building an unlicensed citywide wireless data network, which will support data sharing and perhaps even act as a backup Internet connection.