title: The 1000 eyes project --- subtitle: Let's connect back - digitally --- _hidden: yes --- _discoverable: no --- description1: ## What is the 1000 eyes project? 2020 has been a difficult year for everyone. Lockdowns, sickness, limitations of movement, being unable to see friends and family. 2020 might be the year that we talk about for decades, probably to our children. In these times, when we need to social distance to keep others safe, we can feel isolated, locked in - wanting to go out and meet other people. With the 1000eyes project we aim to bring people back together. Safely and everywhere in the world. ## How does the 1000 eyes project work? Every **eye** allows you to see one spot in the world. An eye is an IPv6 enabled camera that is world wide reachable (*). With an eye, you can view parts of the world. Live and unedited. There are two options to choose from: Option (A) an eye at your place that you operate. Or (B) an eye that we operate for you. ### Option (A): An eye for you and your place ### Option (B): An eye operated by ungleich ## How do I connect the eye? You can either connect the eye via a network cable to your router or you can connect it via WiFi. ## Meet, talk and exchange ideas So what if you see a cool eye? Who can you talk to it about? Where can you announce a trip that you do with your eye? For this we already created an open exchange platform on the [Open Chat](/u/projects/open-chat/): simply register at the Open Chat and then join **1000eyes:ungleich.ch**. ## Financial Goals ### Initial Goal: producing first batch of 100 eyes - 7520 CHF Let's create the first 100 eyes together. We will setup a website that lists all available eyes and allows you to select an individual eye for viewing. ### Stretch Goal #1: 20'000 CHF If we are able to produce a bigger amount, we will be able to add a battery and solar panel option to allow your eye to function without external power source for some time. Our current tested option includes a 30000mAh battery and a 1.65W solar panel. The estimated price for this add-on is 75 CHF (the exact price will be communicated once we passed this stretch goal). ### Stretch Goal #3: 50'000 CHF This is roughly 500 eyes distributed in the world. Reaching this goal will allow us to add a 4G/LTE option, allowing your eye to function even without an Ethernet cable and without WiFi. We are currently evaluating a partnership that will even allow us to distribute it with SIM cards in Switzerland. Estimated price for the 4G/LTE extension is 75 CHF (the exact price will be communicated once we passed this stretch goal). ### Stretch Goal 3: 100'000 CHF If we reach this goal we will add IPv4 proxy support for every eye - that means every eye will also be accessible from the IPv4 Internet. Additionally we plan to add more sophisticated filtering and creating your own collection of eyes on the website - so that you can show your selection of eyes to your friends and family. ## Tech details The eyes are based on tested and running on ungleich verified hardware. All eyes are running the Open Source operating system [OpenWRT](https://openwrt.org/). The camera is a HD (1280x720) resolution. The eye **does not store** ### The hardware The eye is based on a MediaTek MT7628AN with 580Mhz, 8 MB Flash and 64 MB RAM. The underlying hardware platform is a TP-Link TL-WR902AC v3. It has dual band WiFi chip that supports 2.4 Ghz (b/g/n) and 5 Ghz (a/n/ac) networks. The Ethernet port is a 100 Mbit/s port. ### IPv6 Connectivity All eyes are bringing their own IPv6 connectivity. So you can connect your eye to any IPv4 or IPv6 network and the eye will use the [IPv6VPN.ch](https://ipv6vpn.ch) to get its own IPv6 address. ### Fully Open Source Not only is the operating system fully Open Source, also the process to create the eyes and to configure is openly available. Because the eyes are using OpenWRT, you are free to reconfigure the eye to your need. ### Wireguard included The eyes use the [Wireguard](https://www.wireguard.com/) protocol to establish the VPN. If you are reconfiguring or resetting the eye, ensure that you make a backup of the wireguard private key. ## The footprint / small print (*) The eyes are only reachable via IPv6. If we reach the If you do not have an IPv6 connection, you can get IPv6 connectivity from the [IPv6VPN.ch](https://ipv6vpn.ch).