Meshtastic: Make your own mesh network

​Ready to break free from WiFi and cell towers? Come hang out with fellow tinkerers and tech lovers at Engineer Cafe for a hands-on evening building your own Meshtastic mesh network! Mesthtastic promises to offer an open source, royalty free, secure network that works anywhere without a carrier needed, up to 9Km, using IoT devices, phones, or even computers. Whether you’re a total newbie or already have a few nodes at home, Laurie and David will guide us through the basics, answer questions, and help everyone get connected—literally.

​Bring your curiosity, your meshtastic hardware (if you have them), and your tinkering spirit! We will do a short presentatio, then break out into some demos and discussion:

• ​range testing with Mesthtastic

• ​alternative firmware options and apps for Meshtastic (we will try out the meshtastic cli , discuss Meshcore)

• ​IoT sensor networks, emergency networks with meshtastic, private IoT communications, and other application

• ​Brainstorm on community projects!

​Sidenote: 名切加奈子が日本語でディスカッションを続ける予定です。

​We are currently porting the iOS Application to Japanese on our fork: https://github.com/IoTone/Meshtastic-Apple

​The Android version is already localized for Japanese. More links and slides will be provided at the event.

​Read more about Meshtastic at https://meshtastic.org.