Found out many of my comrades live near me and now I am fixated on building a LoRa network (hexbear.net)

submitted 4 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

4 comments fedilink hide all child comments

Not for any real purpose yet but I think it would be a fun project and could help us get used to using secure communications outside of our phones. Does anyone have experience setting one up? Also there was a guide posted somewhere on Lemmy recently that I am having trouble finding if anyone could share.

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments

[-] [email protected] 6 points 4 months ago

https://meshtastic.org/ is probably the best place to start, they have some basic steps on how to choose a device, flash it, and connect to that device, assuming it doesn't have its own keyboard and screen (beyond a tiny OLED for status messages, anyways).

Note that you can pick up most devices from Aliexpress. https://lilygo.cc/ also has devices, but they more premium. Keep in mind frequency restrictions by country.

this post was submitted on 02 Feb 2025

26 points (100.0% liked)

diy

22185 readers

1 users here now

Finally, a comm for that one user who hand-makes longbows. This ones for you, comrade.

founded 4 years ago

MODERATORS

[email protected]