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129 lines
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title: The 1000 eyes project
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subtitle: Let's connect back - digitally
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description1:
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## What is the 1000 eyes project?
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2020 has been a difficult year for everyone. Lockdowns, sickness,
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limitations of movement, being unable to see friends and family.
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2020 might be the year that we talk about for decades, probably to our
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children.
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In these times, when we need to social distance to keep others safe,
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we can feel isolated, locked in - wanting to go out and meet other
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people.
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With the 1000eyes project we aim to bring people back together. Safely
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and everywhere in the world.
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## How does the 1000 eyes project work?
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Every **eye** allows you to see one spot in the world. An eye is an
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IPv6 enabled camera that is world wide reachable (*). With an eye, you
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can view parts of the world. Live and unedited.
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There are two options to choose from: Option (A) an eye at your place that you
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operate. Or (B) an eye that we operate for you.
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### Option (A): An eye for you and your place
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### Option (B): An eye operated by ungleich
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## How do I connect the eye?
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You can either connect the eye via a network cable to your router or
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you can connect it via WiFi.
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## Meet, talk and exchange ideas
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So what if you see a cool eye? Who can you talk to it about? Where can
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you announce a trip that you do with your eye?
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For this we already created an open exchange platform on the [Open
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Chat](/u/projects/open-chat/): simply register at the Open Chat
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and then join **1000eyes:ungleich.ch**.
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## Financial Goals
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### Initial Goal: producing first batch of 100 eyes - 7520 CHF
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Let's create the first 100 eyes together. We will setup a website that
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lists all available eyes and allows you to select an individual eye
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for viewing.
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### Stretch Goal #1: 20'000 CHF
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If we are able to produce a bigger amount, we will be able to add
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a battery and solar panel option to allow your eye to function without
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external power source for some time. Our current tested option
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includes a 30000mAh battery and a 1.65W solar panel. The estimated
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price for this add-on is 75 CHF (the exact price will be communicated
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once we passed this stretch goal).
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### Stretch Goal #3: 50'000 CHF
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This is roughly 500 eyes distributed in the world. Reaching this goal
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will allow us to add a 4G/LTE option, allowing your eye to function
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even without an Ethernet cable and without WiFi. We are currently
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evaluating a partnership that will even allow us to distribute it with
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SIM cards in Switzerland. Estimated price for the 4G/LTE extension is
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75 CHF (the exact price will be communicated once we passed this stretch goal).
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### Stretch Goal 3: 100'000 CHF
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If we reach this goal we will add IPv4 proxy support for every eye -
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that means every eye will also be accessible from the IPv4 Internet.
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Additionally we plan to add more sophisticated filtering and creating
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your own collection of eyes on the website - so that you can show your
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selection of eyes to your friends and family.
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## Tech details
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The eyes are based on tested and running on ungleich verified
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hardware.
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All eyes are
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running the Open Source operating system
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[OpenWRT](https://openwrt.org/). The camera is a HD (1280x720)
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resolution. The eye **does not store**
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### The hardware
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The eye is based on a MediaTek MT7628AN with
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580Mhz, 8 MB Flash and 64 MB RAM. The underlying hardware platform is
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a TP-Link TL-WR902AC v3. It has dual band WiFi chip that supports
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2.4 Ghz (b/g/n) and 5 Ghz (a/n/ac) networks. The Ethernet port is a
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100 Mbit/s port.
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### IPv6 Connectivity
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All eyes are bringing their own IPv6 connectivity. So you can connect
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your eye to any IPv4 or IPv6 network and the eye will use the
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[IPv6VPN.ch](https://ipv6vpn.ch) to get its own IPv6 address.
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### Fully Open Source
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Not only is the operating system fully Open Source, also the process
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to create the eyes and to configure is openly available. Because the
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eyes are using OpenWRT, you are free to reconfigure the eye to your
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need.
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### Wireguard included
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The eyes use the [Wireguard](https://www.wireguard.com/) protocol to
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establish the VPN. If you are reconfiguring or resetting the eye,
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ensure that you make a backup of the wireguard private key.
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## The footprint / small print
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(*) The eyes are only reachable via IPv6. If we reach the If you do not have an IPv6
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connection, you can get IPv6 connectivity from the
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[IPv6VPN.ch](https://ipv6vpn.ch).
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