Hackers on the way to San Francisco's CodeCon conference from Portland will recreate last year's WiFi caravan, in which the passengers in several moving cars use WiFi links to create a moving high-speed network for chat, music-sharing, and other applications. This year, they've got their hardware supplier to play along and issue a press-release.
VIA Technologies, Inc. a leading innovator and developer of silicon chip technologies and PC platform solutions, today announced that the Janus Wireless Project will use VIA EPIA M-Series Mini-ITX mainboards to form the hardware platform behind their WiFi Caravan's zany multi-car, 14-hour journey from Portland to San Francisco on 21st February 2003, running a full service wireless network between vehicles, with public online participation through specified access points.
Broadcasting music, playing games, chatting, downloading and uploading files, the WiFi Caravan aims to show how a 802.11 (WiFi) wireless network can be maintained between several high speed moving vehicles using the existing wireless access node infrastructure, much of which has been abandoned by defunct telecommunications companies in and around the Portland area.
(via Hack the Planet)
