aha moment last night when @Jestopher sold me a #meshtastic device. He went to bed in our hotel and sent me a message over meshnet while I was still at the lobby bar. Going to have fun with this thing

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This device, heltec v3, is basically as inexpensive as you can get and works perfectly well. The board itself is an ESP32 and is upgradeable with a better antenna. The ESP32 is not very energy efficient, so for low power & solar applications the RAK WisBlock devices are better. Lots of options here:
This is a really cool concept. Very interested in how to send a note doing this.
It depends on line of sight, and I’m not sure for the antenna with those Heltec kits, but we have nodes doing 20-30km with higher gain antennas here in South Australia.
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Rand 1 year ago
t-y 4 thread freaks! / lovelocalgrow
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frphank 1 year ago
It's LoraWAN presumably so you won't nostr over this one presumably.
Can someone orange pill me on these. Not totally clueless but still