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Participation
If you have any ideas, want to share cool solutions or help out developing hardware or software:
- Setup an account (top right) and create pages, fix errors, discuss on discussion tabs, all very welcome!
- Use the telegram group.
IMPORTANT: Right now we need to improve the communication channels and connections with others like Hackers against Climate Change. If you would like to help send a mail to trailblazr(at)noxymo.com I will soon update the most recent info here. (Updated: 17th of Sep 2019)
List of participants
We provide a list of participants to get in contact with each other after the camp. Please create a wiki account and add yourself to be included into updates (we will check changes to this list regularly).
Nickname | Comment | |
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User:trailblazr / blazr | trailblazr@noxymo.com | Representing Workgroup on CCCamp 2019 |
User:Benadski | mynick(at)gmail(dot)com | Developed the grid for SHA |
User:Chewie | altpwr groupie | |
User:Teun | comment | |
User:Jule | comment | |
User:Thejeremail | comment | |
User:emergy | comment | |
User:Raphael | comment | |
User:Maesto | comment | |
User:Tiefpunkt | altpwr(at)tiefpunkt(dot)com | Initiated Microgrid project at CCCamp2019 (with people from Infuanfu and /dev/lol) |
User:Jackie | c3 at chaosfield dot at | comment |
User:Obri | obri at chaostreff dot ch | comment |
User:Fraxinas | altpwr@repairfox.de | comment |
User:unknown |
Telegram Group
Join our group on Telegram
Social Media
Please use the twitter hash tag #eventgrid when referring to this workgroup. It is still a working title right now.
Take part in the Survey!
On CCCamp we had 5000 participants needing electrical power. To improve our future power grid we would like to ask you a few questions in regard to your personal use of power. Please take a few minutes to answer the anonymous survey and help us green the grid.
News
We are right now preparing a summary of the activities aiming to reboot the whole power stack as a green power network which happened on the CCCamp 2019. Here re the most recent activities and results...
- We have a survey online we would like you to fill in. Check it out!
- Part of the Infrastructure Review
- Our main bulletpoints summed up on a slide
TL;DR
- WE ARE EventGrid, JOIN US NOW to work on the next generation green power grid*!
- 48V / 300-400V DC Power Grid to connect remote villages which have their own local microgrids.
- 48V DC Power Outlet (2 lines + 1 token ring data bus for Outlet Load Balancing)
- Power Meters (for villages; 300-400V) for better visualization & awareness of consumption
- Power Meters (for participants; 48V) for logging 24x7, visualization & awareness of consumption
- Poll/Questionnaire-driven insights on power consumption of event/village/participant
- Gamification Concept to trigger more power input & power storage
- Public Relations activity for transparency & promotion of more green activity
WE MET HERE DURING CCCAMP
- Our Camp Sessions every day 1600 at THM Village / Lagerfeuer
Some existing very low voltage standards to exchange power
- USB (5V, 2A) (10W)
- USB PD 1.0 (5V/2A, 12V/5A, 20V/5A) (100W)
- USB PD 3.2 (5…[ + 0.02 steps ]…20 V) 5A (100W)
- PoE …57V …100W
What we plan to do
Following things are right now our focus and work in progress:
- A new technical approach to bootstrap EventGrid a new DC Power Network for running power networks on events like SHA and CCCamp in an environmentally friendly way (to be developed!)
- We want to raise awareness by making power consumption more transparent using a new power meter (to be developed!)
- We want to make it easy for single event participants to gain insight in one's own power consumption patterns by providing a DIY power meter hardware KIT to display/visualize and log power consumption (to be developed!)
- We want to gather research data from CCCamp participants on certain important questions setting up a poll/questionaire (to be developed!)
- We want add gamification to incentivize green power stacks (to be developed!) on future events like SHA, EMF, CCCamp, etc.
- We want to keep the community updated what we do and to which degree the community already reached their goal to shift the whole power stack towards a green power stack. We will do this with e.g. photos, statistics, proof-of-concept-installations and more...
AltPwr / EventGrid at Chaos Events
SHA2017 and prior
Take a look at History
CCCamp 2019
Reignition as EventGrid. See CCCamp 2019 for more details.
rC3 (2020)
tiefpunkt organised two virtual meetups during the Remote Chaos Experience, December 2020. Meeting minutes:
Links
- Hackers against Climate Change (Wikipage)
- Libre Solar (Web Page)
The battery balancer
Some people at the camp were handed out balancers kits.
THINGS
- ) We know bringing all this heavy equipment is not helping keeping down CO2 much, but the idea is mostly about giving people the opportunity to get hands-on experience on building green solutions. This experience will hopefully lead to more permanent green solutions in other places.
P.S.: At least we hope to add a new twist to the existing, currently in operation solution...
If you have some useful DC-powered equipment, list them here.
Have you successfully converted equipment to work directly from DC without inverters etc? If so, please list them here with instructions about the conversion process!