Friend gave me a #Meshtastic node (off grid mesh network over #LoRa radio).

Feeling #solarpunk af

It's quite active in my region, I've connected with approx 86 nodes!

The chatter on main is pretty standard. A bit of a prepper vibe and some gentle trolling of said prepper.

Would be cool to link up some of the radical houses here with Meshtastic nodes. The nodes are ridiculously cheap and portable (e.g. ESP32 and an antenna) afaik.

Meshtastic also requires encryption by default for non-default channels (aka main) which isn't allowed on amateur radio in the UK.

Would easily run off a power bank solar setup. I was running it off my phone for a while whilst connecting via serial over USB-C. Super low power requirements.