 So the dish is just made from some just standard normal plywood. I mean it's jungle So it's marine life, so it doesn't doesn't rock, but it's not gonna get wet. It doesn't need to be we've got Small-cell chicken wire in here, which is just standard chicken wire And then just just cable ties just zip ties to to pull that mesh tight to the to the paraboloidal shape So we're making these like these slats are super easy just to just mark out the box. There's the on the full tutorial on On the website, which the link is to in the description of the video To get the parabolic curve. I just done As is sort of spelled out in the tutorial Just hang like a light chain of a fixed length between between two points and that'll hang in a catenary curve, which at this kind of Focus is about it's very very similar to a parabola So I mean your spray paint over over that chain and then jigsaw out the you know the shadow That it that it leaves And that's it pretty much so both of these dishes Took me about one day to make the to make the frame But that's like an easy day and then another easy day to get the mesh And there's a whole the cost of all of this is about $20 per dish I guess I mean less really because we already had the plywood on the side, but if it bought it new that's about what that would come to the only other materials is to this a string which Pull tight and that's that's the focus so the things like designs that you know It gives you the focus where the string meets and that also gives you like a hard point to to mount your whatever on So that the setup here would be having Like an adapter like this or like a phone or something and then like a like a father like Have if it was a phone broadcast it out through Wi-Fi tethering or or Bluetooth tethering or USB cable You can get these up to five meters length before it starts to become like too long Run that into a window patch that into like a laptop or something And then patch that into the Wi-Fi card in the laptop and broadcast it out into the rest of the house So all those devices connect through that one laptop through the dish and Through the air gap and then into the internet connection at the other end. So we're getting about 57 Isabelle's signal there, which is very good for hundreds of meters of trees We're also picking up someone's phone. I don't know who that is but they're a long way away whoever they are and then We've got Good enough connection that You know, it can load Facebook Pretty much as quickly as if this was like in the house with the router like The speed that that's going is pretty much the speed of the internet connection like because it's a little bit Dodgy into the top house as it is This is over the back end of the house Front of the router So also having the Main house broadcasting pretty much over the entire property means that as other houses get built here They'll be able to tap into that signal as well And basically just have like full high-speed broadband internet in the jungle in Panama And if we can make it work here, then theoretically it should work pretty much anywhere So the dish wasn't really something that was like a project itself I was in New Zealand working on a greenhouse project and they came out with you and my father lives in a very remote part of New Zealand and So many of the internet to work on that project So we borrowed this mobile USB like into that dongle from a guy like there as well And then I drove round to the property with them with like me leading up a window of the car with like the dongle was like I like a frying pan like a wok as like as a reflector dish plugged into my laptop I managed to get like enough signal to see that like, you know, we could connect with a better reflector So then this drawer is like a sign for that and in my cat package and like I'm worked out that small cell chicken wire would be like Would be a small enough mesh size to reflect the signal as a solid surface but All the all the cuts that we did with that first version. We didn't think we had like a jigsaw so like All of all of those cuts were done with that Which took like hours and like killed about four of us and then I'm like Pete the young guy in the Dr. Hill came in and was like, I should have used that jigsaw that we've got at home Like I'm gonna lend that to you like just yeah, okay Thanks for that that would have been really useful about four hours ago It works really well We just chucked one of the five meter cable and like put it outside the common house is linear It's the wall like point of a tree didn't bother to optimize it at all and we're getting like a hundred kilobits per second through the thing And then sort of yeah, pass that through my laptop into the rest of the rest of the building Wi-Fi wise and um So I've tested this I've made these in Spain I got four and a half kilometers range with line of sight just to some basic home network at the other end Made them into bet in Ladakh in the high Himalayas It's called sacmo. We were gonna build beam like internet from Spatulka Monastery up to sacmo down the end of some river valley Which is like seven and a half kilometers with a dish in each end like we've got here and The like taught the local guys how to how to make the dishes that they can make more of them Because there's one guy who really wants to do it because he had he lives like this really remote village But even by the ducky standards like super remote, but they just built a cell phone tower Which you thought would be visible like 40 kilometers away from the top of the mountain like about the village so the plan was that make like a couple for the village and then Like put it up on the top of the mountain and like people going up and like you know taking the livestock up the mountain We're like like a bag of phones Put that in the dish feed the animals and stuff all the you know SMS's and all that sort of stuff You know sends and receives grab the bag take it back down and had everybody's phones out again So yeah, it wasn't meant to be a project in and of itself But it has been like really effective and it's gotten quite a lot of interest so We've installed it here in Panama to bring Internet to the Panamanian jungle and so that seems to be working out really well