So we got ourselves a vending machine. As we want to build our own control unit, some reverse engineering is in order. In this post, I’m not just going to state the results, but also describe in part the steps we took to get there. The fun is in figuring these things out, so I hope […]

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In the beginning of 2015, the local Freifunk project really started gaining some traction, breaking through the 100 node mark in just a few months. But the people running those nodes are basically still all technical people who don’t mind figuring out the right kind of router to buy and flashing some custom firmware onto […]

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