SCN Hack Night

PLEASE NOTE: Final location is at the Filipino Community Center Integrated Learning Center (Makerspace).
Event time was changed to June 15th due to last minute Covid and scheduling-related complications!!! Sorry about the late notice!

The Event:
We'd love to get Seattle Community Network (SCN) community members and volunteers “hacking” on radio and network-related mini-projects.

Learn how our SCN 4G LTE cell sites are set up and how to attach a user device to the network; flash a router's firmware; practice crimping Ethernet cables; investigate networking protocols using a variety of wireless sniffers, packet captures, and Wireshark; play with wireless point-to-point radios; help us unlock a carrier-locked LTE device; dig deep into 4G or 5G cellular protocols; help out SCN with configuration tools for making installs easier, or with adding critical features to our network monitoring infrastructure! This can be a chance to get some hands-on experience playing around with networking equipment, and/or chat and make progress on your personal or SCN's projects with other cool folks :)
Facebook event here

Program:
7:00 pm- arrive and eat pizza
7:30 pm- brief round of intros and kickoff, subgroup/mini-project pitches
8:00 pm- split into groups to get started working on mini-projects
9:00 pm- brief check-in of something each group has learned, has a question about, or is stuck on
11:30 pm- wrap up and debrief
12:00 am- go home

Some proposed mini-projects:

1. Help us try to unlock a carrier-locked fixed-wireless LTE device!
2. Learn how we configure and attach user devices to the Seattle Community Network, and how to help test signal strength/coverage
3. Help us figure out how to automate monitoring the performance of our user devices' Internet connections, to make sure they are working well!
4. Investigate what kinds of wireless signals you can observe using an RTL-SDR, HackRF, or other SDR and Wireshark
5. Try flashing LibreMesh firmware onto commodity routers and make a small mesh network
6. Help build and paint a box/enclosure for our Tacoma Public Library Main Branch indoor networking equipment, for our next cell site installation!
7. Help laser cut and use some stencils with the LCL or other partner logos! Even better, use your artistic skills to help design and propose a logo for SCN that we can vote/collaborate on.
8. Help us update our website!
9. Anything else you are interested in trying out!