Aaron<p>Made a <a href="https://social.coop/tags/meshtastic" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meshtastic</span></a> solar node, as one does.</p><p>For those who aren't familiar, <a href="https://social.coop/tags/mesh" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>mesh</span></a> infrastructure like this enables encrypted texting in a locality, with many nodes like this making up an ad-hoc network.</p><p>It's completely independent from internet & cell service. Since it's solar, it doesn't require a working electrical grid. It's also very low-power. </p><p>Reliability of message delivery is not super awesome, but it's useful people-owned infrastructure in a time of extreme weather and fascism.</p>