Having just spent a couple days keeping the modest 802.11 network running at SXSW, I read this piece on a one-man island-wide community network in Hawai'i with great interest. I'm particularily fascinated by how the guerrilla netowrker secured the rights of way for his base-stations:
One of Wiecking's base stations is on a solar-powered ranger's cabin halfway up Mauna Kea, the Big Island's 13,800-foot volcano; the state Department of Fish and Wildlife uses a remote camera there to keep an eye on a feeding station for the endangered state bird, the nene. The camera streams video back to a ranger station at the base of the volcano. Meanwhile, Wiecking's 13-year-old stepson, Andrew, recently used the technology for an inventive solution to sibling management. He placed wireless cameras around the house to spy on his younger brother and sister. "I put a stop to that," says Wiecking's wife, Sydney. "Our bedroom could have been next."
(via /.)
