#offgrid
Me, building a screen around the solar shower
Before In-laws were coming to visit, They would be up for seeing naked people.
(Years ago, in Canada)
and, yes, that shower worked! Hot water in limitless supply all day
#NoNakedPeople #OffGrid #Shower
Miniature flowers around my #offgrid #tinyhouse. They are about the size of a honeybee and ripen into a sticky seed pod. This was the last picture of the vast flower garden I took before the rain started to pour water. Mother nature is heavily nurturing the native wildlife this year. Sunshine kitty loves to enjoy this amazing experience all day with me.
Video Overview of the Meshtastic Radio Mobile App Interface and Settings
This video explores what the Android app looks like, how to use the main screens, and what various settings and menu options it has. It gives a good feel of how you’d use Meshtastic radio communications from the app to control the radio settings and to communicate. I did a previous video that dealt with a non-technical intro to what Meshtastic radio is, and this is well worth just watching first if Meshtastic is completely new to you.
Meshtastic is license-free, so anyone can use it, and has really started picking up in popularity in the last year, so much so, that stock has often not been available for a month or two at a time. It’s a really fun way to also connect to neighbours nearby, or keep in contact in the wilderness when out hiking.
Watch youtu.be/GAGOkXUlbaY
#Blog, #Meshtastic, #offgrid, #opensource, #radio, #technology
Tornado watch
Sunshine kitty is with me watching the dark clouds of nourishment roll across the great sky above us. I have finished gardening and ready for the infusion of the greatest molecules of life...and here comes the rain! The dark clouds are covering us now and the solar system has kicked into battery power for the night. It is so beautiful here...back into our sturdy #tinyhouse
Yeah riiiiiiight--homeless people go around buying farms. If you believe that I've got a bridge in Brooklyn I could sell you.
♲ Simon Brooke - 2022-10-30 10:34:41 GMT
#introductionSimon Brooke, crofter, ex #Lisp hacker, still dabbles in #Clojure.
Lives at Standingstone, which is not a commune but a conspiracy: what happens when a bunch of homeless people buy a farm.
Posts mostly about crofting, living #offgrid, #LandReform, Scottish #politics, mental illness.
he/him, #autistic, cis male, #transally.
I've been off grid solar for a few years and forgot how much people pay for electricity every month.
My utility bills continue to be $0 per month....
https://www.statista.com/statistics/263492/electricity-prices-in-selected-countries/
Working from home.
We've been doing some chainsaw milling recently, quite close to the cabin, meaning that we can move the tools with our cargo barrow & more importantly pop back for a coffee or lunch. The Logosol portable chainsaw mill is ideal for small & medium trees, which is good because we have a lot of them & we're reluctant to cut the really big pines that remain here. The timber will be used for our own projects, it's not for sale.
#KM 0 #offgrid #DIY
A Non-Technical Introduction Video to Meshtastic Off-Grid Radio Communications
This is an open-source solution that works with inexpensive LoRa radios, and your mobile phone or laptop, to be able to pass messages directly, or in shared channels, between the various nodes with no Internet or mobile phone coverage required.
The intention of this video is to give a non-technical overview of what it could be used for, how it works, and what you can expect from it. This is not a “how-to configure it” or a field demo video. Hopefully the video helps motivate some new users to set up these nodes in their own cities, and thereby help this form of mesh off-grid communication be more effective across entire cities.
Watch https://youtu.be/tNZdVxIIQ58
#Blog, #Meshtastic, #offgrid, #opensource, #technology
Three Meshtastic nodes are active in Cape Town for off-grid communications during disasters or just to meet your neighbours
Myself and two other ham radio operators have established 3 Meshtastic nodes that will operate 24/7 to help build out more connectivity across Cape Town.
We are using license-free 868 MHz radios, so anyone can buy these cheap (ish) devices and get connected. The more nodes we have, the better the connectivity gets across the whole city. These radios will keep messaging going regardless of whether there is Internet or not. So, if we hit Stage 8+ load shedding and cell towers and Internet starts to go down, this messaging network will still work.
This means that citizens can message for assistance needed, and this can be relayed to City or Provincial Disaster Risk Management. Or in cases of loss of communications during a disaster we can also send out messages to everyone on the network as to where water tankers will be deployed etc.
Apart from the public channel (which is much like CB radio’s Channel 19) anyone can also create their own private channels (with passwords) to stay in contact with groups of friends or family. The connections between all radio nodes are encrypted with AES256 encryption, so private messages will stay private even though they bounce across 3 or more other radio nodes to reach the recipient.
You have a phone, so all that is needed is the free Meshtastic app, and a Meshtastic compatible radio device. This is probably bad timing, as right now there is a global shortage of Meshtastic radio devices. The massive global uptake has also made this situation even worse. But the point of preparing for disasters, is to do that well before a disaster strikes.
I’ve documented a lot of my lessons learnt, as well as given some context to the situation in South Africa for this service at the linked web page below.
See https://gadgeteer.co.za/hamradio/meshtastic-in-south-africa/
#Blog, #capetown, #Meshtastic, #offgrid, #southafrica, #technology
I got kicked out of an "off-grid prepper group" for noticing this article is misleading. The guy in the article didn't "build" a cabin - he simply "renovated" an existing #cabin.
https://offgridlivingsurvival.net/how-to-build-a-log-cabin-for-10k/
The admin is a fake. He's never built anything but a following. All talk. it's all "what I'm gonna do when I...." But be sure to subscribe to his glossy online magazine..... ;)
I kept thinking, eventually, he'll post something about what he's done as a #prepper ......but....nothing. His daddy was mean to him, so now he knows bush survival....and that's it. no chickens, no garden, no tools, no land, no solar power, nothing.
@reparaRe
♲ la tierra de nuestros nietos - 2024-01-24 01:28:35 GMT
#offGrid #solucionIsla #solar #DIY #hackerSpace #solarPunkAlgunas imágenes para ejemplificar una instalación/constelación en desarrollo para cargar baterías de herramientas portátiles de 18/20vMAX.
La idea es en lo posible de crear un soporte para un banco de trabajo que aprovecha pilas de packs de baterías averiadas, permita cargar packs que aun están en buenas condiciones e incluso usar herramientas portátiles enchufados al sistema mientras las placas solares produzcan electricidad para prolongar el tiempo de uso real sin necesidad de cargar las baterías o cambiar las mismas.
Parte del sistema:
* Torre de metal de PC para alojar:
* pilas y packs de baterías
* controlador solar CMTD 20amp 12-24v
* transaformador de 12 a 15,16,18,19,20,22,24v
* cables y enchufes SCHUCO.Los enchufes SCHUCO son modificados para tener un solo borne (pin) de los bornes para corriente de 220v para el polo positivo y los bornes de tierra para el polo negativo de la instalación 18-20 voltios DC.
@permacultura @diy @marieverdeil
I looked up the property taxes for my old house in the city I sold, $5,000. I would estimate the utilities there cost at least $7,000 this year. Insurance was about the same cost as property taxes.
#Offgrid this year in the country, my property taxes this year, $200. Utilities, $0.00. Insurance, $0.
My new #solar #tinyhouse is much warmer this winter than that big house in the city. It's freezing outside, toasty inside. I'd say my quality of life increased and yearly carbon footprint profoundly decreased.
Looks like everything here already paid itself off! There's no way I'm going back!