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Brian Capouch
Assistant Professor, Saint Josephs College

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Brian Capouch is a longtime open source user, programmer, and hacker.

He teaches CS using 100% Open Source tools at small Indiana college, run a small wireless ISP; Asterisk and openWRT are his specialities.

Sessions

1:40pm Thursday, 07/28/2011
Hacking History: Old Crank Telephones Talk Again Thanks to Open Source Tools
Open Hardware
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: telephony, maker, asterisk, openwrt, heyu, x10, history
Brian Capouch (Saint Josephs College)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 3 ratings)
The first generation of telephones were off-grid, using local batteries and crank generators. The MAG*NET project at Saint Joseph's College developed a method of allowing historic telephones to be used, without modification, to operate on the modern telephone network. Asterisk, openWRT and heyu are Open Source tools under the hood. Read more.