Create your own Meshtastic LoRa Node with our easy DIY guide. A complete step-by-step for building your customized mesh communication system

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.radio/post/3984948

Make your own Meshtastic LoRa Node with our easy DIY guide. A complete step-by-step for building your customized mesh communication system

  • chronicledmonocle@lemmy.worldEnglish
    3·
    1 month ago

    Meshtastic is neat and I always contemplate building a node for fun. However, I’ve yet to see many practical uses for it beyond maybe texting while hiking.

    • helenslunch@feddit.nlEnglish
      61·
      1 month ago

      If you’re at a concert or ball game or something, the local cell network can become overloaded.

      I went to a multi-day festival with no cell reception and handed some out to friends and they worked a treat.

    • TimeNaan@lemmy.worldEnglish
      2·
      1 month ago

      It’s best use is alternative communications in a disaster, where the mobile network is affected. Or if a dictator decides to shut it off during a protest.

      Overall it could work well as a communications means for activists in street protests since these often overload networks by sheer volume of users concentrated in one spot.