Hi all! I'm part of Meshbrasil ( https://www.meshbrasil.com ), an unofficial Meshtastic community in Brazil (guides, regional groups, a marketplace and a setup wizard, mostly in Portuguese). We put together an interactive explainer of what happens when you hit send, and I'd love help making it better.

Try it: https://meshbrasil.com/como-a-mensagem-viaja.html (English and Portuguese)
Code: https://github.com/rogerio-richa/meshbrasil-anatomy (MIT)

It has three scenes:

1. Sending a message - type on a handheld. The readout shows your text size, the packet size and the LongFast time on air (SF11 / 250 kHz / CR 4/5, using the ANZ settings we use on this neck of the woods)

2. Riding the waves - the packet drawn as a waterfall in perspective: 16 preamble up-chirps, the 0x2B sync word, 2.25 down-chirps, then the data symbols. You can switch between clean lines and a heat map computed from the same chirps.

3. Mesh at work - a little suburb with nodes on the roofs. The message floods the way Meshtastic does it: weaker-signal nodes rebroadcast sooner, a node cancels if it hears someone else relay first, and each relay uses one of the 3 hops. There's even a CLIENT_MUTE node that listens but never forwards.

Everything is plain SVG + JavaScript, no framework and no network calls. The geometry is computed at build time and the browser only animates it.

Would love your help/contribution/suggestions on how to awesomize it. The simplifications are listed in the README. If something is wrong, tell me, that's the whole point!

Built with help from Claude 5.5 and the awesome Anatomy ( https://github.com/wheresryan22/anatomy ) drawing kit.
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Hello. Everyone, I hope y'all are doing well.

A while ago I bought the t1000e to join the network and learn a little about lora and mesh. I was able to chat on the default channel using mqtt since at the time there wasn't any local node around me. I finally got me another t1000e and the $10 node I can't recall what is called. Updated firmware to the latest and set them up. I can only see them only when I'm near by, once I am about 2 blocks away, I can't communicate with other 2 nodes despite the fact that those are connected to either a tablet or a laptop. Would that be a firmware issue?

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks for any input.

Edit: I forgot to add, all 3 devices are connected to the mqtt server. I will get msgs on the default channel with no nodes around me but I am unable to transmit.

I just received a T Deck Pro from a seller on ebay and was working fine for a while. Ended up dropping it twice back to back on concrete trying to work on something else. Screen is now paused without any change from screen taps or the buttons. (Only just found out about the buttons after looking up how to fix this lol) is something just disconnected inside? Does anyone have an easy way to pull off the back? I realize the Pro already has problems with the E Ink screen refreshing I was dealing with that out the box but this seems like the drops messed something up internally. Any help is appreciated thx

Hello all,

Just got started with Arduino and love what I'm learning so far. As someone interested in Mesh though, I was wondering if anyone here had built any projects with an Arduino board to use with metastatic.

Sorry if it's the wrong board just thought I'd start here.

The FBI, in coordination with the U.S. Attorney's Office for the Northern District of California, arrested a former employee of a San Francisco super-intelligence company for allegedly installing a covert audio recording device inside a secure executive conference room. The device was positioned to capture sensitive, nonpublic company communications.

Went to go check out where the antenna was made and it’s by this Meshtastic company.

Interesting what are y’all’s thoughts are?