In Class Notes
Can we detect physical motion / data activity of their laptops without external data companies?
I do have administrative access to my router. Makes me think how families need to have a bond of trust and boundaries and who’s in control of the network, has access & information and how often trust is not broken, not due to trust itself but through lack of access to knowledge.
Tom has never heard of an IoT network. But that ‘smells’ a lot like my thesis project. Could we define multiple devices connected in isolation as an IoT network? Would such thing be useful? Why not?
Fabri = visualization of signal strenght.
Wifi Mapping is tough to do, because it doesn’t exist within a space, but there’s still bounds.
How do you encourage people to hunt for the data you need?
NFC tag to receive something, like a treasure hunt.
The network gives, the network takes.
Wifi network signal strength is directional.
#TODO Talk more to Fabri about this.
If you have 4, you could team up in teams of 2, you could follow an existing pattern and complete a map that you visually see on the display and maybe even find another.
People finding a way back to each other. Expand the world.
Good mindset = Figure out what piece of data you need and is missing and design a gamified experience that helps you get it.
cat data.json ||
!! Arquitecture wise, this is precisely what I’ve been wanting to set up as my home / remote access devboard + connected to Claude Code to run experiments from out of home on my phone. Answering those “I wonder if” questions for proofs of concept and ideas I have when I’m out in the city. Only question missing would be how to upload firmware to the ESP32 remotely. If not possible because no OS, then a workflow would be to: 1. Collect any data possible from Arduino, all packaged nicely into a JSON file with little to no treatment. 2. In the same way that I have setup certain branches to deploy automatically to Vercel after commits, could I set up something that: a) deploys directly new script / client side files to my Virtual Private Server? but that would require giving an external cloud service SSH / Password access to my VPS….. b) Or setting up MQTT (if message = do X) / API / use existing one that picks up index.html code and such, and rewrites or replaces file + restarts servers. - Can MQTT Broker take in 300 lines of code or is it just values and small json lines? c) Essentially would need to have a different server other than my VPS send it code. And make sure all systems are incredibly siloed and backed up so that hacks / adversarial attacks don’t have real impact. - Scratch the whole idea and just have an SMS service that texts me results of my experiment. Or fulfill AI’s supposed purpose for society and work and think less instead of strategizing ways of doing it from more places 🙃
Next class - due
- Actual assignment
- Collect data for a week.
- Data analysis
- Keep working on enclosures with heat inserts
- Noah starts with a reference to trace out.
- Add diagram here