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Yrys
@yrysafal@toot.wales  ·  activity timestamp last week

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

Yrys
@yrysafal@toot.wales replied  ·  activity timestamp last week

Still getting used to the whole 500 characters thing so I guess you'll see a lot of threads.. I'm a rambler.

Also looking to learn more about #meshtastic and #lorawan to help facilitate communication and connectivity while living the semi nomad life. If I build a server into the walls of the van, I won't need a diesel heater for the winter... right?

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Meshtastic
@meshtastic@mastodon.social  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

🚀 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

Cover image of Make: Magazine Volume 95 featuring the “Boards Guide 2026.” The top half includes a bold red MAKE: logo with white background. Below, the main visual shows a custom hardware board in close-up with multicolored electronic components, USB ports, and traces. Text overlay reads: “Boards Guide 2026: The Word is Board.” The design is clean and tech-focused, representing DIY hardware innovation.
Cover image of Make: Magazine Volume 95 featuring the “Boards Guide 2026.” The top half includes a bold red MAKE: logo with white background. Below, the main visual shows a custom hardware board in close-up with multicolored electronic components, USB ports, and traces. Text overlay reads: “Boards Guide 2026: The Word is Board.” The design is clean and tech-focused, representing DIY hardware innovation.
Cover image of Make: Magazine Volume 95 featuring the “Boards Guide 2026.” The top half includes a bold red MAKE: logo with white background. Below, the main visual shows a custom hardware board in close-up with multicolored electronic components, USB ports, and traces. Text overlay reads: “Boards Guide 2026: The Word is Board.” The design is clean and tech-focused, representing DIY hardware innovation.
Meshtastic
@meshtastic@mastodon.social replied  ·  activity timestamp 3 weeks ago

📘 Read the feature in Make: Vol. 95!
🧠 Digital edition available here:
👉 https://www.makershed.com/products/make-magazine-volume-95-pdf
📰 Print coming in a few weeks!

#LoRaWAN #OpenSource #EmbeddedTech #IoT #MeshNetwork

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nullagent
@nullagent@partyon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 3 months ago

The first new tool is lorapipe, a firmware that runs on most consumer LoRa radios.

We've tested it a ton on ESP32-S3 based Xiao Wio boards.

This turns your lora radio into extremely minimal serial device that sends and receives packets in a dirt simple CSV format.

The radio can be tuned on the fly to switch between meshcore, meshtastic and LoRaWAN sync words and frequencies.

https://github.com/datapartyjs/lorapipe

#lorapipe #lora #lorawan #meshtastic #meshcore

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nullagent
@nullagent@partyon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 10 months ago

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

nullagent
@nullagent@partyon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 months ago

In the end TTN/LoRaWAN make a ton of sense for corporate customers or people selling IoT gear to corporate buyers.

It works well where you have coverage. It's well designed and there's tons of quality hardware, though much of it not fully open.

LoRaWAN's claim to fame is that device data connections can be as cheap as $1/year and some of the gear like soil sensors can last for 10yrs on a single coincell battery.

#LoRaWAN

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nullagent
@nullagent@partyon.xyz  ·  activity timestamp 10 months ago

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

nullagent
@nullagent@partyon.xyz replied  ·  activity timestamp 10 months ago

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

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