On a side note if anyone here is familiar with #meshtastic please let me know, I've been asked with putting together an Introduction to Meshtastic presentation and I want to make sure I didn't miss anything
Alternatively if you aren't familiar and want to learn, likewise, that way if you're left with questions I know what I need to answer.
and now, I shall cause a war in the hashtags.
So I got another one... This time it's the Heltec T190 VisionMaster in the ZeroFox 3D case. (Picked not just because of its name lol 🦊) It's been a really cute node here on my desk. Love it :3
It just hit me! But meshtastic is a lot like StreetPass on the 3DS.
I'm carrying around my node on my backpack and seeing who I pass by :P
Unfortunately didn't pass by too many #meshtastic nodes on my Texas trip. Just 2 in Tennessee and one router in Texas. Sadly by the time I saw them they were well out of range. Still fun to see some tho!
Starting work on my new static #meshtastic node. Raspberry Pi 4B 4GB with a Waveshare LoRa hat and a tiny little antenna to start. The plan is to print a case so I can hang it in my window over an outlet and let it do its magic.
🌟 Hey Meshtastic community!
🔄 We recently made some changes to our public MQTT broker.
📖 Check out our latest blog post for more information on these changes:
https://meshtastic.org/blog/recent-public-mqtt-broker-changes/
I’ve been looking for an antenna for a permanent #meshtastic node in my attic and I found this one, along with 5m RF200 low-loss cable.
I know that this setup will most likely render me ‘excommunicado’ in the #meshtasticcommunity: “thou shalt always install thy node right below the antenna!”, but here’s the thing: I want to experiment with different hardware, I want to do some interference measurements at night (ever heard about the ‘Mammotion’ lawnmower which illegally jams 868MHz?) , AND I have a powerful 2m/70cm transmitter close to it, and I don’t want EMI issues on a sensitive 5V line.
Besides, the antenna has 3dBi gain and I measured the cable loss to 1.4dB at 868MHz, so given its better location, the numbers still come out positive 🙂
See that dip near 145MHz btw.? Need to do a test to see how much signal it’ll pick up from my VHF rig - don’t want to damage my LoRa module 👌🏼🙂
#lorawan #electronicsengineering #rfengineering #rfengineer #hamradio hamr #testandmeasurement