In the past few years we’ve seen the rise of low-power mesh networking devices for everything from IoT devices, weather stations, and even off-grid communications networks. These radio modules are ...

There’s been a lot of buzz about Meshtastic lately, and with good reason. The low-power LoRa-based network has a ton of interesting use cases, and as with any mesh network, the more nodes there are, ...

Imagine the convenience of being able to communicate in the most remote corners of the world, where traditional cellular or internet services are nonexistent. This is the vision behind the Meshtastic ...

Meshtastic is free open source software for microcontrollers that extends GPS wireless communication technology to share location information and send and receive messages within a few miles, even ...

– Communication API for bluetooth devices (such as our Android app) to use the mesh. So if you have some application that needs long range low power networking, this might work for you. – Eventually ...

In the 1980s and 1990s, online communities formed around tiny digital oases called bulletin-board systems. Often run out of people’s homes and accessible by only one or two people at a time via ...

ROCK ISLAND, Ill. — It starts with a few boxes of wires, batteries and plastic cases. With a few minutes of fiddling, two dozen Augustana students are connected to a unique network. It's part of a ...

It looks interesting and possibly fun. Buy some simple and inexpensive off the shelf hardware, flash it, fire it up. Any of my fellow Ars members involved in this? Looking at one of the maps online, ...

Hypothetical: You wake up tomorrow morning to find a superstorm that developed overnight thanks to climate change has sparked a chain of events that abruptly ushers in a new ice age and alters human ...