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This thing is achieved?😳It can be done? Am I entering cryptoanarchist's heaven?🥲

I am playing with nomadnet, but so far I have problems connecting to other peers.

I'll stay close to keep up with news👍

https://www.ribbitradio.org/#/

I think you are really under appreciating the bandwidth limitations of LoRa... This will work if maybe there is one person sending announcements but LoRa is not WiFi. That being said, WiFi mesh with directional antennas would be fine.

However there is a project, but limited to typical ham radio restrictions called ribbitchat. It's pretty amazing actually, you hold your phone to a radio and it transmits the message :)

https://www.tindie.com/products/wyld-things/lorawan-sensor-board/

If you are into LoRa, there are sometimes nice boards available on Tindie, often with EU sellers so you don't have to pay the Atlantic tax. This one looks nice and cheap but might require some tech investigation.

I have seriously no clue what you guys are talking about. Where can I read something for dummies 101?

Ah sorry. I mainly work in electronics so I forget sometimes :) basically LoRa is this new-ish radio system. It's long radio (kilometers) and low power. It is really ideal for short messages, it was designed mainly for small devices. Because of the frequency it uses, it is essentially available to anyone which is why there is some excitement about using it for decentralized and distributed applications.

However, it does have limitations so it's not a wifi replacement.

Here's a decent, but slightly technical overview: https://www.digikey.com/en/maker/blogs/introduction-to-lora-technology

Thank you! I was interested in getting a radio amateur license, but don't see much use for it for now. Does this (communication) work on similar principle?

That's the hope :) and this is why people get so into the LoRa rabbit hole. It is, at best case, good for very small messages infrequently sent. In this use case, a radio can run off of a solar cell for years. You can get lora radios for the EU without any license and experiment. It is legitately fun and I'm a big fan, but they have limitations.

Ham radio I'm also into for the same motivating reasons we are probably on nostr :) (decentralized radio etc...) however it does require a license to use legally. Also the ham radio community is a bit frustrating. There are a small number of like minded hams, but most I feel just like to talk on the radio.

So LoRa I think will not transmit voice for example, but with ham radio you could potentially talk globally, directly, by bouncing radio waves off the ionosphere.

In any case, it's useful to pursue if only for the appreciation of how radio works and to understand why not all radio is equal. I've been on again off again with it for many years.

Hopefully that helped :)

Yes. Lora is only partially legal. For example you should not transfer encrypted information. And yes, super slow.

No license required. Device from Aliexpress for 20$ plus antenna.

https://disasterradioskcz.github.io/

Check this out:

It is currently recommended to use one of the following devices: A LilyGO LoRa32 v2.1 (also known as TTGO T3 v1.6.1) or a LilyGO T-Beam v1.1.

https://nostrcheck.me/media/public/nostrcheck.me_7901620077104347741690495066.webp

Wow, I wanted exactly this for crypto payments. I think it's much more user friendly than qr codes...

Also it would be cool to have this as a transport in nomadnet / reticulum. They are transport agnostic, you can actually print the encrypted message as a qr code, stick it somewhere and if you read it with a compatible app, it is the same as if you have received it over internet or lora.

Nomadnet / Reticulum is pretty amazing.

Well, it looks like Reticulum has a pipe interface. So you could pipe the packet to asound or similar, and have it play on speakers into the radio perhaps. I'll have to give it a shot :)