Getting Started with Meshtastic
After seeing the Meshtastic booth at Open Sauce, my Dad and I thought it would be fun to learn more about the low power radio tech by getting our own radios and experimenting.
Then, we were contacted by Simon from Muzi Works, and he offered to send a few units of R1 and H1, his company's pre-built Meshtastic nodes.
What's a node, and what is Meshtastic? Excellent question.
What is Meshtastic?
Simply put—and copied shamelessly from the official website:
An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices
Meshtastic nodes are often tiny gumstick-size PCBs with a LoRa radio module, a couple buttons, a tiny OLED display, and a USB port.