Have I turned into a Prepper

The reality is that my life in the past 5 years has been slowly evolving to more self sufficient lifestyle. Hobbies and projects that I have been interested in have been moving me naturally towards a more self reliant future. These projects include: Solar electricity and solar hot water Developing a local mesh network Getting […]

LoRa mesh networks using Meshcore software

I previously wrote a post about Discovering Long Range Radio Communications LORA" detailing my interest in establishing a local mesh network. At the time I had a choice of using either Meshtastic or Reticulum. Since these early days I have moved from Reticulum network stack to using relatively new mesh software called Meshcore. But why […]

Discovering Long Range Radio Communications (LORA)

N.B This blog post is ongoing and will be added to as I continue to develop my own LORA Networks I first came across Long Range (LORA) radio communications as a form of passing messages when I encountered Meshtastic, an open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices. Meshtastic is […]