Introduction | Meshtastic
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Discover Meshtastic: a community-driven, open-source project using LoRa radios for long-range, off-grid communication.

Meshtastic is an open-source project using low cost LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without little or no communications infrastructure. It’s a portmanteau of Mesh and “fantastic”.

I found it shared on Facebook, which lead me to the subreddit post, which lead me to reading more about it and even finding Lemmy communities and local groups!

https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic

I also made sure to check if this wasn’t a hail corporate thing. And I also felt like I missed the era of homemade radios. So this is exciting for me!

  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.caEnglish
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    4 days ago

    There’s like five ways of interfacing with the microcontroller’s GPIO or serial bus to attach external hardware, each more convoluted and limiting than the last.

    You should see the (so far) 7 incomplete ways to manage network devices on the wake of ifcfg being ruled too unsparkly. I’m sure there’s more, but oh God is it ever a mess – and don’t ask why nmcli conn (not nmtui conn as you’ll find) collects crud to bite you in the ass when you really can’t afford it.

    Lost-boys software is such crap, man.