Hands-on Meshtastic

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Abstract

History of Meshtastic, Open Source Business and Culture, and Live Demo

Speaker Bio

Jonathan Bennett (@jpbennett)
Jonathan Bennett started his first business by flashing the Open Source OpenWRT firmware on consumer routers, and installing them for small businesses upgrading from DSL. He took that Open Source experience to the FLOSS Weekly podcast, which he co-hosted for years before taking over as the primary host in 2023, and continues to host today. During this time he also covered the security beat for Hackaday, writing the This Week in Security column from 2019 through 2025.

Jonathan has been a Meshtastic contributor since 2023, and now leads the Meshtastic on native Linux project, as well as heading up the cryptography team. He’s also serving as the CEO of Meshtastic Solutions, the company formed to provide commercial support for Meshtastic.

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What’s the modern state of UAV telemetry (for peaceful purposes, like remote sensing) and LoRA? Have you folks seen anything interesting on that front?

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In Mark’s opening remarks, he mentioned enabling the underprivileged around the world through open source. Are you seeing Meshtastic being used to help bridge that economic divide?

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Best device to start with LoRa?

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Great talk, thank you!

I believe London has quite a lot of LoRa traffic. If I set up some Mestastic nodes are there things I might want to do to not contribute to the congestion in this busy area?

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Nice session today :slight_smile: https://meshtastic.org/

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Kudos for the session. I’d love to see additional use cases in the next one. Thanks. @jpbennett

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Video - “Hands-on Meshtastic“ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zmGY4ImCML8