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You are invited to join my new mailing list for people interested in internet resiliency clubs:
https://lists.bowshock.nl/mailman/listinfo/irc
I also updated the internet resiliency club HOWTO with some more hardware info and links to talks:
Suggestions and corrections welcome!
The very short version of internet resiliency club is: organize some internet nerds in your area to buy a bunch of LoRa radios
- More time than money? Buy a Heltec V3
- More money than time? Buy a LILYGO T-Echo
- Flash your radio with Meshtastic over USB
- Use 868 MHz in EU and LONG_FAST
- Make a private channel
- Practice regularly
Feeling ambitious?
- Add a power bank with trickle charge (eg Anker 326)
- Add a 15W solar panel (eg Heko Unfold 15)
- Upgrade the antenna (eg Taoglas TI.08.A)
Update on the Amsterdam Internet resiliency club:
* now have monthly in-person meetings
* almost 20 members!
* have actually sent each other messages over the private Meshtastic channel
* experimenting with MeshCore too
* members applied for €50K in grants, received €10K so far, €5K in planning
* reporter for New Scientist came to a meeting and interviewed a bunch of us
* in touch with the government of the city of Amsterdam
After a bunch of us took Meshtastic nodes to WHY and used them during the power outage, we feel confident that our connectivity problems are due to too low density of Meshtastic nodes in Amsterdam. The in progress grants include money for buying and giving away Meshtastic nodes
My main personal lesson is that in Europe, while the government is slow to start new things, there are generally a lot of options to get government support for a citizen-created project - unlike the US
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