Mark  10h ago

I want to give an update about my project #TinyBBS, a #Meshtastic #BBS that runs on the meshtastic firmware itself without an rpi. It is now NRF52 based. The NRF is a more lightweight and efficient.
The BBS has Email, bulletins, daily wordle, a pretty rich LORD style multiplayer RPG, survival skills, chess, QSLboard, and Airplane QSL Board. The BBS is about 70KB and I do a neat party trick to store knowledge files like a full 12k #wordle dictionary on the external flash.

https://github.com/GoatsAndMonkeys/TinyBBS

Show threadbayo8h ago
@Mark The QSL boards are the sleeper feature. Ham radio operators have been doing digital contact logging for decades. Bringing that culture onto a modern mesh protocol with BBS nostalgia layered on top? That's a community waiting to be activated. 📻
Show threadMark  
@bayo the QSL is cool and a bit of a work in progress. My old ESP32 QSL would get the coordinates and look them up on the internet can give a location name. The off grid nRF52 code has a library of thousadns of cities and their central coordinates. when someoen QSLs we give the location of asking node. For air QSL we can share what city they are over and stuff liek speed and altitude. We can actually detect people in planes from them advertising their node just from altitude and speed.
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Show threadMark  5h ago
@bayo I learned to program in the 80s so it's really fun programming with such tough storage constraints, networking constraints, and processing constraints.