Side note: how do y'all carry your antennaed nodes while out and about? Like to the gym or errands
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What am I even seeing here... Is it a wireless leash for a dog or something? Apparently I have heard nothing about this branch of tech, because I recognize none of the products you just mentioned. Man I feel old.
Its a low powered long range radio that runs meshtastic firmware!
It allows people to share text-based communications without needing the internet or cell towers, think of it like walkie-talkies that can talk to multiple people at once and automatically relay messages from one radio to another, creating a mesh network.
You're not too out of the loop, if you're on Lemmy!
How did you find us here? It's hard to explain succinctly but think of it like a 2-way pager. Only instead of proprietary radio towers, it's just personal LoRa devices creating a mesh communication network. You can put one on your dog and it will collect it's location via satellite and broadcast it's coordinates to other nodes on the network.