Has anyone heard of Meshtastic? Found this via some offgrider types on YouTube.
from their about section:
'Meshtastic® is a project that enables you to use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without existing or reliable communications infrastructure. This project is 100% community driven and open source!'
seems to be some new tech related to ham radio and sdr or something?
https://meshtastic.org/docs/introduction
I'm not familiar with this stuff, but seems interesting
Did this ever make it on #nostreport ?
nostr:npub19mduaf5569jx9xz555jcx3v06mvktvtpu0zgk47n4lcpjsz43zzqhj6vzk ? 👀
No, thanks for tagging us though! We’ll share with the community in tomorrow’s report. Seems like there have been lots of sovereign communication projects coming out on Nostr recently 🤙
🤔 seems fascinating
Just noticed the second video has over 1million views. Who'ld've thought there was so much general interest in this? Interesting indeed 👀
just finished the video, i'd love the LoRa and Meshtastic community to be on nostr
I USE THE MESHTASTIC APP BY GARTH VANDERHOUWEN
HE ALSO HAS AN ETSY WHERE HE SELLS HIS DIY RADIOS
YOU LINK RADIO TO APP FOR INTERFACE
Idk if I would call it “new” but off grid or out of collected data is the right way to describe it. People who are paranoid military preppers are really into these.
Yeah just noticed it's not all that new. New to me. I have one of those SDR dongles somewhere I messed about with ages ago, seems like a few steps away from that.
Essentially a long range Walkie talkie. It’s hard to imagine a situation where you need one, You also need a team of people you are communicating with, And in that case it would be useful in a civil war context where regular uneducated people were killing each other. Intelligence services could still pick up your frequency and intercept communications. Interesting stuff though.
