Pirate Radio Station for $55 Could Help Decentralize Big-Telecom
June 24, 2014 (Tony Cartalucci – LocalOrg) – Make Magazine recently featured a tutorial on constructing a FM pirate radio transmitter using a Raspberry Pi board. Raspberry Pis are single board computers that go for about $55and are regularly used as the centerpiece for a wide variety of projects ranging from art installations to automation and everything in between.
The FM transmitter will broadcast stored media within a limited range to any FM radio receiver nearby. It is a versatile proof of concept that can be used as is to “cover your home, DIY drive-in movie, a high school ball game, or even a bike parade.” In the comment sections below the entry, readers could already be seen expanding the parameters of the project to add more options and increase its utility.
Pirate Radio & Decentralizing Big-Telecom
As reported before, while open source software and hardware, as well as innovative business models built around collaboration and crowd-sourcing have done much to build a paradigm independent of current centralized proprietary business models, large centralized corporations and the governments that do their bidding, still guard all the doors and carry all the keys. The Internet, the phone networks, radio waves, and satellite systems still remain firmly in the hands of big business. As long as they do, they retain the ability to not only reassert themselves in areas where gains have been made against them, but can impose preemptive measures to prevent any future progress.
Image: Project Byzantium creates a local “mesh” network – a personal Internet that circumvents NSA surveillance and big-business rules and regulations. |
For those interested in tackling this project, if you are interested in it but feel you do not have the technical competence to do it, find your local hackerspace and ask for help. It is probably a project they have either done already, or would be interested in doing, and they most likely have a Raspberry Pi board to work with lying around.
Source: http://landdestroyer.blogspot.com/2014/06/pirate-radio-station-for-55-could-help.html
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