Hello, world. I'm Yrys. Rapidly approaching my 30s, musician, nerd, gardener and about a million other things, I guess.

Reformed IT Support Engineer, turned Events worker with a massive interest in leveraging tech to help build immersive experiences, as well as the nitty gritty that helps make them work.

Learning #touchdesigner and #blender for the pretty colours and flashing lights, spinning tunes with #rekordbox and building my own pirate radio station - all in the name of #opensource

🚀 We’re excited to share that Meshtastic is featured in Make: Magazine’s 2026 Boards Guide, inside Vol. 95! 🙌📡

Huge thanks to contributor Jon "ShakataGaNai" Davis of the Bay Area Mesh (https://bayme.sh) and @makemagazine for making this happen. 💥

And shoutout to all the awesome hardware vendors who help bring Meshtastic to life! 🙏
📸 Preview below!

#Meshtastic #BoardsGuide #MakeMagazine #Vol95

So the problems with the TTN is basically is a SaaS capitalist play. You buy a gateway, connect it to TTN then TTN sells access back to you and your community for your own hardware 🥴

They do give a free tier and act open but your hardware and data is THEIR profit center. Lame.

It's got a lot of network coverage in the EU, but never really took off in the US.

In practice the network in the EU is viable, the one in the US isn't.

https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/map

#LoRaWAN#TTN

Some LoRa history.

First off a company called Semtech developed & patented the silicon to make LoRa radios back in 2014.

In the EU a corporate outfit, "The Things Network"(TTN), was the earliest adopter and created an open specification for a centralized LoRa network(LoRaWAN).

TTN feels a lot like a cellular network and isn't a mesh network. Suffers from the typical coporate conflicts but has a nice enough free tier and a fair bit of open source code behind it.

https://patents.google.com/patent/US20160094269A1/en