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Mike Dank / @Famicoman

Mike Dank is a developer and writer who builds and participates in hobbyist networks to both learn their underlying technologies and create templates for others to do the same. Mike's work follows the DIY punk ethic, showing how to approach complex technologies in a simplified way with materials you may already have or are otherwise inexpensive/easy to obtain.

Mike has previously served as editor of the N-O-D-E Zine, an independent publication promoting decentralization and P2P technologies, open source, do-it-yourself tutorials and hardware design, cutting edge technology, and more. Additionally, Mike runs Networks of Philly, an online resource that makes sense of Philadelphia's hidden network infrastructure, though you may also find him at hacker meetups, playing with mesh networking technologies, or building analog telephone and cable television networks.

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Sessions

10-21
13:30
50min
Networks of Philly: Exploring Philadelphia’s Hidden Network Infrastructure
Mike Dank / @Famicoman

Philadelphia’s network infrastructure is messy, clumsy, and often unseen by the general public. Wandering the streets, you may get a vague understanding of what’s going on—a manhole cover sits unassumingly on the crosswalk, or maybe a mysterious box with an antenna sits high upon a wall in a back alley, humming into the night. Under your feet and above your eye line, data is soaring by through brightly-lit fiber cable and ethereal radio transmission. The city is alive, but few may ever understand to what extent. Through this talk, we will take a look at pieces of networking infrastructure that are often hidden in plain sight and use them to understand the underlying communication networks that connect us all on a daily basis.

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