Decoding Meshtastic With GNU Radio

Meshtastic is a way to build mesh networks using LoRa that is independent of cell towers, hot spots or traditional repeaters. It stands to reason that with an SDR and GNU Radio, you could send and …

Passive Diplexer Makes One Antenna Act Like Two

Stay in the amateur radio hobby long enough and you might end up with quite a collection of antennas. With privileges that almost extend from DC to daylight, one antenna will rarely do everything, …

A Long-Range Meshtastic Relay

In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of low-power mesh networking devices for everything from IoT devices, weather stations, and even off-grid communications networks. These radio module…

LoRA, With No Radio

A LoRa project has traditionally required a dedicated radio module, because it’s a commercially licenced protocol. But as the way it works has been progressively reverse engineered, it’…

RNODE: A Portable Unrestricted Digital Radio

RNode is an open source, unrestricted digital radio transceiver based on — but not limited to — the Reticulum cryptographic networking stack. It is another interesting project in what we might call…

Custom Library Rescues Good LoRa Hardware From Bad Firmware

The range of hardware that comes on some dev boards these days is truly staggering. Those little LoRa boards are a prime example — ESP32 with WiFi and Bluetooth, a transceiver that covers a b…

Garden Light Turned Mesh Network Node

We love a good deal, especially when it comes to scavenging parts for projects. Cheap outdoor solar lights are more than just garden accessories; they’re a handy source of waterproof enclosur…

Radiochat Is A Simple LoRa Interface Over WiFi

LoRa is often talked about as a potentially useful solution for emergency communication. The problem is, few of us are running around with LoRa hardware on a day-to-day basis. Student [William Bark…

Notfallkommunikation 2.0: Alarm per Meshtastic

Die netzunabhängige Messenger-Firmware Meshtastic feiert das Release 2.0. Sie macht Smartphones und weitere Hardware fit für die Katastrophenkommunikation.

Notfallkommunikation 2.0: Alarm per Meshtastic

Die netzunabhängige Messenger-Firmware Meshtastic feiert das Release 2.0. Sie macht Smartphones und weitere Hardware fit für die Katastrophenkommunikation.

Meshtastic - Was ist das?

Meshtastic ist ein autarkes Meshnetz, das man mit günstiger Hardware aufbauen kann. Man erreicht hohe Reichweiten und kann kostenlose Textnachrichten und mehr versenden.