Michael Kafarowski

Building a Homelab - IntroductionAs the saying goes, The Cloud is really just Someone Else’s computer. You might be looking at your phone - the “supercomputer in your pocket” - but as you edit online docs, read e-books or stream music, you’ll find yourself mostly using the computing power of Google, Microsoft, Amazon, among other companies. Although the processing power of phones and computers continues to increase, the trend among users points towards further reliance on the subscription-based…

First Steps Into The MeshImagine an encrypted text communication network that is owned by you and your community, one that requires no subscription fees, works with little or no connection to the power grid, while serving as a gateway into meeting interesting new people and building skills in electronics. This is mesh radio! With mesh radio, you can send and receive text messages across a city - not by relying on a cell company or service providers, but instead by bouncing messages between…