Alas Poor Erinaceus to Technology@lemmy.mlEnglish • 3 days agoActivists are Designing Mesh Networks to Deploy During Civil Unrestwww.vice.comexternal-linkmessage-square29fedilinkarrow-up1260arrow-down11
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minus-square@SandySocks@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish47•3 days agoThe project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate. https://meshtastic.org/
minus-squareu/lukmly013 💾 (lemmy.sdf.org)linkfedilinkEnglish5•2 days agoThere’s also MeshCore, and now the networks are split between these 2.
minus-square@curbstickle@lemmy.dbzer0.comlinkfedilink22•edit-22 days agoWell… Shit. Time to check out meshcore! Edit: Nah, company driven. I’ll keep the fully open GPL 3 meshtastic my preferred
minus-square@vinnymac@lemmy.worldlinkfedilink16•2 days agoIf someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors. https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301
minus-squareUlrichlinkfedilinkEnglish2•2 days agoThere are lots of competing LoRa mesh networks right now.
The project it looks based on is Meshtastic, the nodes are pretty cheap, you can even find them on Amazon if your truly desperate.
https://meshtastic.org/
My truly desperate what?
Thanks dad.
I LOVE Meshtastic!
There’s also MeshCore, and now the networks are split between these 2.
Well… Shit. Time to check out meshcore!
Edit: Nah, company driven.
I’ll keep the fully open GPL 3 meshtastic my preferred
If someone is interested in getting involved with meshtastic but doesn’t have soldering or any electronics background you can purchase ready made devices from many vendors.
https://muzi.works/products/refurbished-r1-with-external-antenna
https://lilygo.cc/products/t-deck-plus-meshtastic?variant=45315795845301
It’s a fun project!
There are lots of competing LoRa mesh networks right now.