Meshtastic is an open-source project using low cost LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communication platform in areas without little or no communications infrastructure. It’s a portmanteau of Mesh and “fantastic”.
I found it shared on Facebook, which lead me to the subreddit post, which lead me to reading more about it and even finding Lemmy communities and local groups!
https://mander.xyz/c/meshtastic
I also made sure to check if this wasn’t a hail corporate thing. And I also felt like I missed the era of homemade radios. So this is exciting for me!
We see “-tastic” used as a suffix so often that it seems genuinely odd to see it explicitly explained.
Meshtastic is nice. I have one node already, debating myself if that’s enough or if I should get/build a solar node.
I was very fortunate that there’s an active community in my city. I can reach nodes 50km away without a big antenna.
What do you plan to do with it?
The fantasy is that during the Robot Uprising, this allows us to coordinate with the rest of the Human Resistance and ensure mankind’s survival.
The reality is probably just sending Dad jokes to one another.
