Mastodawn

Herding T-Beam Cats: my practical test bench for running 7 LilyGo T-Beam SUPREMEs with PlatformIO, synchronized clocks, serial monitors, structured logs, and Codex-assisted debugging bounded by actual evidence.

https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=777

#TBeamSupreme #ESP32 #PlatformIO #Reticulum #microReticulum #EmbeddedSystems #Gentoo #AIcoding #Codex #HardwareHacking

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John Poole May 23

Two $17 Raspberry Pi Zero 2 W boards exchanging encrypted poems over #Reticulum using Bluetooth only -- no LoRa hat, no extra radio, no carrier network.

A small-board demo of #microReticulum in C++ with BLE as the link layer. Cheap hardware, built-in radios, real packets, real timing, real tinkering.

https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=720

#RaspberryPi #PiZero2W #Bluetooth #BLE #Linux #SBC #Maker #SmallBoardComputers

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John Poole May 22

Skipping the #TBeamSupreme for this test: two bare #RaspberryPiZero2W boards running #microReticulum with my BLE interface, each sending poetry to the other over their built-in Bluetooth radios.

Two $17 SBCs, 8.8 MB builds, fully secure Reticulum link, and ambidextrous roles: start both, and they decide who is client/server.

#Bluetooth #BLE #Reticulum #RaspberryPi #MeshNetworking

adingbatponder

👾May 19

Has anyone made this #ratspeak #reticulum #microreticulum stand-alone work on a #cardputer #m5cardputer #esp32 https://github.com/ratspeak/ratcom ? I did not manage to get any lora radio announces from my extant lora rnode mesh to reach the cardputer nor for any cardputer announces to reach my rnode mesh, even with changes to codebase. (see fix in link below)

John Poole May 19

Milestone: Torlando’s Python BLE Reticulum protocol behavior has now been partially distilled into a C++ protocol/session core and field-tested between two Raspberry Pi Zero 2Ws. The test moved the full U.S. Constitution both directions over Reticulum using BLE, with C++ fragmentation/session backends confirmed.

https://salemdata.net/johnpress/?p=695

Next stop: microReticulum on the LilyGO T-Beam SUPREME.

#Reticulum #BLE #Bluetooth #microReticulum #TBeamSupreme #LilyGO #RaspberryPi #ESP32 #LoRa #Cplusplus

circfruit May 5

Going beyond the home lab, today i put up 2 more #reticulum transport nodes with modified #microreticulum firmwares (responding with battery % on msg). I managed to get messages through from about 7km away with 3 hops over LoRa and 1 TCP interface. Obviously the ultimate goal is to send an image at that distance, I but need to fix some bugs on the t-deck firmware because it failed me.

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adingbatponder

👾Apr 15

@circfruit Fabulous. A friend made this #varna9000 #microreticulum https://github.com/varna9000/micropython-reticulum work on the Lilygo #T3S3 and he is over the moon. We are dead excited to make these devices run as a complete #lora #standalone #mesh #radio . Thanks so much! Just fabulous. #reticulum

John Poole Feb 14

Working toward running #microReticulum natively on the LilyGO T-Beam SUPREME (ESP32-S3 + SX1262).

Hardware exercises complete (GPS, OLED, SD) and basic LoRa ping-pong via RadioLib.

Next: implement a proper Reticulum LoRa interface layer for SX1262 on ESP32-S3 — binding microReticulum’s interface abstraction to SPI/DIO/TCXO for full RNS operation.

Interested in collaborating or testing? #Reticulum #LoRa #ESP32 #TBeam #Meshtastic