Who: Caleb Phillips
What: An Introduction to Meshtastic
Where: 1930 SW 4th Avenue, Portland, Oregon 97201-5304, Room 86-01
When: Thursday, July 3, 2025 at 7 PM
Why: The pursuit of technology freedom
Summary:
Meshtastic is an open source mesh network application for low power IoT
devices. Rapidly reaching critical mass in Portland due to a fast
growing user community and low cost and accessible platform, it provides
an appealing playground for off grid and secure communications
experimentation and infrastructure design. This talk will cover basics
of the wireless tech, platform and hardware as well as demo introductory
usage with built nodes.
Bio:
Caleb Phillips is featherless biped who is passionate about public
domain software and science. His day job is at a government laboratory
working on renewable energy technology and he comes from a background in
academic wireless systems research, data science, statistical modeling
and visualization. Locally he has done work with the Personal Telco
Project and other organizations. His website is http://smallwhitecube.com.
PLUG is back at Portland State University. Thanks to the Computer
Science Department and to Andrew Greenberg for hosting us! The room is
in the basement of the PSU Engineering Building (also connected
underground to the Fourth Avenue Building, or FAB). Enter through the
Engineering Building. The outside door will be locked, but there should
be someone present at the entrance to let you in starting at 6:40pm
until 7pm. There will be a sign on the door with a phone number you can
SMS if there isn't someone there to let you in immediately.
https://calagator.org/events/1250482087
With luck, the talk will also be streamed live here:
http://www.twitch.tv/kngbwlf, and later posted to YouTube.
--
Russell Senior
PLUG Volunteer
russ...@pdxlinux.org
