Some results from a week of there being a meshcore repeater on Cougar mountain.
A lot of us can now hear around 80 radios throughout the Seattle / Tacoma region.
The public chat channel is extremely busy at various times throughout the day.
I've been able to DM people in Tacoma and connect to their chat servers all the way from Seattle.
Some routes are extremely stable, meanwhile others are more flaky. It's super exciting!
Meshcore is working well enough in Seattle that now adoption is the largest issue to having a more robust LoRa mesh network.
So if you're in the PNW area and want to build a solid handheld LoRa radio to try out meshcore I've made a bill of materials for my go to portable build LoRa plans.
https://git.devhack.net/nullagent/lora-builds/src/branch/main/rak
#meshcore #seattle #pnw #tacoma #openhardware #arduino #lora #radio
I think the best thing about the home made nodes I've been using is that it's durable enough to carry almost daily. But flexible enough that I can do tons of experiments with external antennas and temporary installations in client mode or repeater.
The big one especially has crazy battery life and can run all week.
The other thing that rocks about this build is that it can be assembled with no soldering so its about as noob friendly as DIY hardware gets.
It'd be nice to be able give away a few to people who can't afford to buy the parts themselves.
$45 / $600
So feel free to throw a few bucks at me so I can scale up my LoRa expirements.
Venmo / cashapp $nullagent
This is a bonfire demo instance for testing purposes
