Solarpunk technology

cross-posted from: https://slrpnk.net/post/8609299

The Ultimate CyberDeck for Encrypted Messaging over a Meshnet

The lilygo t deck is an all in one device that includes a LoRa antenna with a screen and keyboard for messaging people over long distances without any internet using the open source end to end encrypted software Meshtastic.

The video is way longer than it needs to be but you can see the device in action. There’s a growing community of people making meshnets using Meshtastic in different cities.

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This seems like a great technology to build resiliency and redundancy in a community, especially for places where cell service is spotty, or in the odd event where normal lines of communication are blocked.

The LoRa boards can be easily powered with a small solar panel for continuous use, and if put in a high enough place with a good antenna, they can have a surprisingly long range!

In addition to being genuinely useful, they also seem like they'd be a lot of fun to experiment and play around with, printing cool 3D cases for them, or designing a better antenna or repeater setup.

If and of you already have experience with LoRa, I'd be interested to hear your thoughts! :D

what bugs me the most is thinking that if lemmy became as relevant as reddit, servers to spam all over the threadiverse would be created nonstop

does anyone have some resources into solutions for spam in stuff like email? i'd like to check if having some giants gatekeepers like microsoft and google is inevitable

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/14059725

Plastic-Free Vegan Leather that Dyes Itself Grown from Bacteria

Did someone say airship?

An interesting tool from the article is ecograder.com which grades a website's carbon emissions and provides recommendations to improve. There is also the Green Web Foundation's directory of hosting providers powered by renewable energy.

This is the report for slrpnk.

For example water driven sawmills to cut wood

Not exactly solarpunk technology, but technology relevant to solarpunks - ones that use Lemmy anyway.

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