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This week’s HackNight was dominated by little Styrofoam planes. We did get a sneak peek at an as-yet unreleased Samsung wifi phone. Small, stylish, seamless switching of GSM and WiFi networks *during* a call.   Eric is building out OpenWRT/OLSR packages for his Airlink router, and there were a pile of soldering irons out at one point. But mostly it was all about the planes.

This week’s HackNight was held in Cal Anderson Park.  We were hanging out next to some guys flying Aero Ace planes and they gave us the chance to do some piloting.  The planes are surprisingly manueverable and fun for $30 toys.  There are only 4 channels available, so it looks like we’ll either have to coordinate buying or figure out a way to move the frequency if we want to get a good dogfight going.

Arp storms getting you down? Discuss.

Someone needs to give me a black macbook. Seriously.

Gumstix with Bluetooth and audio? Not uselix at all.

Oh yeah, here’s my Zipit HOWTO from Wireless Hacks v2