High Desert Institute

2025-03-27: Meshtastic Hardware Strategy and Development

  • A lot of existing custom hardware development has happened around the kind of work we’re trying to do.
  • Most of these existing meshtastic bbs services are using python
    • TC2 BBS
      • https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qwwAOZnLLgg
      • https://github.com/TheCommsChannel/TC2-BBS-mesh
    • VeggieVampire
      • https://www.tomshardware.com/raspberry-pi/raspberry-pi-powers-this-meshtastic-network-bbs
      • https://github.com/VeggieVampire/MeshBoard
  • These custom hardware platforms cost $60 or more and are targeting low power off grid applications.
  • A Raspberry Pi Zero W2 that can also run IIAB costs $20
  • We have an initial recommended build list!

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