I spent a coupla hours this morning setting up my Meshtastic starter kit[1] from seeed studio.

[shapr@recurse.social]

I spent a coupla hours this morning setting up my Meshtastic starter kit[1] from seeed studio.

Props to @brimstone for getting me interested.

Boston has a whole bunch of #Meshtastic nodes!

[1] https://www.seeedstudio.com/Meshtastic-Starter-Kit-Ready-to-Use-Off-Grid-Instant-Reliable-Communication.html

[shapr@recurse.social]

@stefani Oh nice!
I'll be in Calgary in July, I'll bring my two pocket nodes!

[redmp@recurse.social]

@shapr silly question.. can one use the radios in plain old consumer devices to mesh network? could i have a LAN built out of my WPA2-enabled devices?

[shapr@recurse.social]

@redmp I think the mesh part is software. I have this vague idea that a Wi-Fi mesh might require multiple devices on each node. That is, I think there's some reason one Wi-Fi card can't connect to multiple access points at the same time. That might not be true though.

[shapr@recurse.social]

@redmp do you want me to find working details about Wi-Fi mesh networking?

[redmp@recurse.social]

@shapr haha, i can't do anything now anyhow, but after my program ends i might pursue this

[shapr@recurse.social]

After 72 hours, here's the nodes I can reach from my #meshtastic solar powered node with the better antenna.

I can reach a node 72 km northeast of here!