{"id":24725,"date":"2025-11-10T01:37:44","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=24725"},"modified":"2025-11-10T01:37:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T01:37:44","slug":"matt-meshtastic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/?p=24725","title":{"rendered":"Matt: Meshtastic"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been following this cool open source project called <a href=\"https:\/\/meshtastic.org\/\">Meshtastic<\/a>, which is \u201cAn open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.\u201d I finally got some time to set it up tonight. It was super easy; <a href=\"https:\/\/flasher.meshtastic.org\/\">you just flash the Meshtastic firmware in your browser<\/a> to any of the compatible devices. I got a Heltec v3 device for $35 bucks on Amazon. (I\u2019d link but it\u2019s out of stock, and I think there\u2019s a newer version.) Apparently, there are enough people running nodes that you can bounce a message from Portland to San Francisco! I love the idea of parallel to the internet networks, and I\u2019ve been meaning to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fcc.gov\/wireless\/bureau-divisions\/mobility-division\/amateur-radio-service\">get a HAM license<\/a>, but in the meantime, this looks pretty fun.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I\u2019ve been following this cool open source project called Meshtastic, which is \u201cAn open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices.\u201d I finally got some time to set it up tonight. It was super easy; you just flash the Meshtastic firmware in your browser to any of the compatible devices. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24725","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=24725"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24725\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=24725"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=24725"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailysutoon.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=24725"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}