made a piratebox gli router setup

this week i made a openwifi piratebox setup, with a tiny gli router with two big external antenna, a powerbank and a usb stick. the wifi is called pirate_open, I wanted something that would entice people to connect but not scare them off.

as soon as you connect to the wifi a webpage pops-up with a simple hello and be nice message, and a chatbox, a media page with some anarchist and communist epubs, a music page with some music and a meme page with anti-capitalist memes. there is also an upload button for people to share files.

i also made a small android app that runs on my phone that keeps a background connection to the router when its on and give me a notification when somebody in the chat says something.

after a whole day of running it when i was in the city this weekend i could see that multiple people connected and some even checked out some files, and 1 person said something in the chat.

this is just a silly fun project to run, but i will carry the router with me for a few weeks whenever i go places with enough people around, see what will happen.