I hope this is a good title ^^

Hmm I thought it was disliked behavior. I’ll change it then!

yup.

But I have to post it with the original title, correct? Or would it be fine for me to give it a more descriptive one?

I don’t have one. It’s to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.

It’s basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.

It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.

Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.

Yeah I don’t have one around ^^

Actually though that’s not true, last night I found an old device of me that I could harvest a 18650 battery from.

That’s cool, will you post your setup in the meshtastic community?

Honestly just get a heltec v3 from aliexpress, it’s only like 12€.

The board works with the cellphone battery, even with just holding the wires to the contacts ^^

Yes exactly that’s what I am trying to do. I just found a 3.7v battery in an ancient cellphone of mine, maybe that’ll work as well.

Assuming that you’re living in the US I think the secret is that disposable vapes aren’t as abundant in Germany yet.

Oh that’s a good idea, I think supermarkets also collect batteries in general to recycle, maybe there I can find empty vapes.

Not in Berlin. I see them sometimes, but not often enough. I want one now ^^

Which antennas do you have? How far does it reach?

Ok so I got myself a heltec v3 xD

They’re the only alternative for now.

This was the plan all along

amazing

I must ask though, why was it hard for you to just look it up yourself?

I’m lazy and you seemed to know about it based on your comment

How are they involved?

This is spam I believe, but I have some of their caps and they’re actually quite nice.