Signal Strength:
a project to advance mobile democracy
2011
Signal Strength is a project to advance mobile democracy. It consists of modules for ad-hoc social networking that let people in an urban area interact offline, leveraging their mobile phones for untraceable communications. This is a hack to your existing cell phone that adds another radio to extend the range and allow you to connect peer-to-peer. This works completely independently of your cell phone provider. It has appeared at Eyebeam, the New York Hall of Science, and Occupy Wall Street.
Testing the prototype
Office hours at Occupy Wall Street
Signal Strength has been seen working with the following android phones:
- Droid Incredible 2
- Motorola Droid X
- HTC ThunderBolt
- Nexus One
Specs and instructions are underway, so stay posted.
Activists- let me know of any features you'd like to see.
Hackers- let me know of any hackerspaces or media labs that would be interested in building.
Made with: phones, electronics, conversations, dreams.
Thanks to:
Eyebeam Art + Technology Center
Matthew Foglia, illustration.
Everyone who offered to help with programming, testing, etc!
We are raising funds for prototyping and workshop materials in order to educate the public about how to preserve mobile democracy. We will also accept donations of Android phones, that can run Android OS 2.2 and above.
