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cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2189807

Held together without any solder ^^

Uses an old phone battery for power and is housed in the box that the heltec v3 hardware was shipped in. Unfortunately I had to bend a row of pins to fit it in the box with the battery, but this is only because on my model the two rows of pins are already soldered in. Normally they should be included extra I think.

I am seeing lots of other meshtastic devices, but haven't yet managed to send a message. Maybe I am not in a good location or I need a better antenna.

Kinda want to buy a second device just for messing around with two of these ^^

I highly recommend buying off of aliexpress directly.

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[–] renard_roux@beehaw.org 9 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Never heard of Meshtastic before, quite the rabbit hole, and sounds super awesome!

Had a look at your other thread (not a member there so seems I can't comment, or maybe it's just my client), and trying to understand what you guys are using these for.

Official site says "Hiking safety GPS", something to that effect, but all this talk of "local topics" has me confused. What's your use-case?

[–] sexy_peach 4 points 2 weeks ago

I don't have one. It's to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.

It's basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.

It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.

[–] adespoton@lemmy.ca 3 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

Ah, so you went for a phone battery in the end.

[–] sexy_peach 1 points 2 weeks ago

Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.