My home #meshtastic node’s now detected over 700 nodes. I announced 44 days ago that it had reached 600 nodes, and 85 days ago it reached 500. Linear growth, I guess, though some people have since switched to Meshcore, and some of these nodes are duplicates when the device owner reset the firmware.
I still don’t talk to anyone, because this is the PNW, but it’s nice to know that I could.
Another #Meshtastic lash up. Rx through a VGA / composite serial terminal adapter made using a PIC32MX250 (https://geoffg.net/terminal.html).
Sadly I could not send as I don't have a PS/2 keyboard to hand & my Cherry keyboard wouldn't work using the USB adapter.
Could this be the next all-in-one node!?
played around a bit with my heltec v3 #meshtastic thingy. Got nothing inside, but stepping out into the garden got me quite a few node contacts.
I think I need to set up a stationary node at the attic… would be cool if I could power it by solar so it's properly off-grid.
…but am I ready to invest even more into something I'm not sure I will even use?
Upgraded my Meshtastic stationary node antenna. Turns out the one I was using was not properly tuned for US 910-915 MHz. In spite of that, I still picked up over 100 nodes in my area. I'm wondering how many will see a hop reduction from my personal node thanks to this upgrade.
Cleaning up the wiring and checking antenna SWR with a NanoVNA.
Was curious if these cheap antennas were similar to their name brand look alikes. And no, no they are not comparable lol. Stick to the name brand I guess for this style of antennas, the cheaper ones are not worth it this time.
Fucking T-Deck Pro antenna connector on the motherboard popped off while installing a new antenna, still attached to the antenna cable 
Guess I have to figure out how to solder this damn tiny thing #meshtastic
I made (and documented) a round pixelated display to carry around using 3Dprinting, #WLED and a stick. Its audio reactive, that means it listens to music and blinks accordingly to the beat: A festival totem (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Festival_totem)
There is also #meshtastic node inside to share your location
If you want to further enhance your copy, I suggest to read the excessive documentation here:
https://github.com/ventilator/pixelstab
No idea what I'm doing but after putting my #meshtastic thingamy upstairs, I can now "see" nodes as far away as Bognor Regis, which seems neat.
After the fun of sending and receiving messages over #Meshtastic using a Commodore 64 and an SC126 CP/M board, I was wondering whether to try with one of the following:
ZX Spectrum.
BBC:microbit.
Acorn System One.
While I had my #Meshtastic node on the workbench I thought I might as well hook it up to a CP/M board, so here's me sending and receiving using an SC126 designed for the #RC2014 ecosystem.
https://smallcomputercentral.com/rcbus/sc100-series/sc126-z180-motherboard-rc2014/
@finn If you want to try designing, scaling an existing “wrong frequency” example, or just have fun learning more, I can recommend AN-SOF free trial at https://antennasimulator.com/.
Need a WIN PC, but otherwise very easy to use, with many examples provided. I have a quick write up for my starter design at my qsl.net/n8dmt website. #HamRadio #meshtastic
Any suggestions for building a 868 MHz ground plane antenna? Many years ago I built a 1/4 lambda antenna for the 4 meter band.
Now for Meshtastic I have to go smaller which means probably I could make a 5/8 lambda antenna. I think this would provide more gain, right?
If anyone would like to share some information about this topic, I would really appreciate.
@seeedstudio opened preorders for their upcoming #loramesh solar node.
https://www.seeedstudio.com/SenseCAP-Solar-Node-P1-Pro-for-Meshtastic-LoRa-p-6412.html
This seems to be a good affordable kit for people wanting to expand their mesh without the need of power plugs ;)
It is advertised as a #meshtastic equipment and it will work great on this network.
It will also be quickly supported in #meshcore as the xiao-nrf52 core that it embeds is already supported.
13. Instead of a LilyGo T-Deck I might have luck getting this "Smart watch" form factor that comes with LoRa built in to see if I can do some #meshtastic tinkering.
帶太陽能板的 Meshtastic Repeater
看到「Solar-powered WisMesh Repeaters extend the range of Meshtastic networks」這個，帶太陽能板的 Meshtastic repeater。 Meshtastic 底層用 LoRa 傳輸資料，維基百科的條目裡有提到，市區傳輸距離大約是 4.8km 左右，郊區則是 16km 左右： According to the LoRa Development Portal, the range provided by LoRa can be up to 3 miles (4.8 km) in urban areas, and up to 10 miles (16 km) or more in rural areas (line of…
Wenn ich im Schmidatal keinen Anschluss ans #Meshtastic Netzwerk finde, dann weiß ich auch nicht. Zur Not klettere ich persönlich auf einen Baum an der Wagramkante und häng das Ding dort auf. 
Working on a meshcore testbed.
I want to have several radios on the roof so I can develop in production
#meshtastic is interesting. I’ve gotten a couple to play with and they’re pretty neat. Imagine two-way pagers somehow had a love child with walkie-talkies, and you’ve basically got this.
Sometimes I end up in places where my phone doesn’t have signal and yet I still kind of need to communicate with others in my group, kind of excited to see how well it works in that scenario.
