From ab7fe18437f9cbbe1f49f1e69b5c3cf3142f26fa Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: James Ravenscroft Date: Mon, 28 Oct 2024 20:33:45 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] update images --- .../posts/2023/12/21/20231221_b7956a59.md | 17 ++++++++++++++ .../content/posts/2024/10/19-meshtastic.md | 23 ++++++++++--------- 2 files changed, 29 insertions(+), 11 deletions(-) create mode 100644 brainsteam/content/posts/2023/12/21/20231221_b7956a59.md diff --git a/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/12/21/20231221_b7956a59.md b/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/12/21/20231221_b7956a59.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..9debf26 --- /dev/null +++ b/brainsteam/content/posts/2023/12/21/20231221_b7956a59.md @@ -0,0 +1,17 @@ +--- +categories: +- Personal +date: '2023-12-21 15:28:57' +draft: false +slug: '653' +tags: +- read +title: null +type: posts +--- + + +

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Took me a few weeks but I finally chewed my way through it. Thoroughly enjoyable pulp sci-fi. It has been fun to read this whilst also playing Cyberpunk 2077 and think about how the two might cross over.

(comment on Judge Dredd Year Three (Judge Dredd: The Early Years))

\ No newline at end of file diff --git a/brainsteam/content/posts/2024/10/19-meshtastic.md b/brainsteam/content/posts/2024/10/19-meshtastic.md index 6500988..b3ba2bd 100644 --- a/brainsteam/content/posts/2024/10/19-meshtastic.md +++ b/brainsteam/content/posts/2024/10/19-meshtastic.md @@ -1,20 +1,21 @@ --- -title: "Flashing Heltec v3 nodes on Ubuntu" -date: 2024-10-19T13:12:27+01:00 +date: 2024-10-19 13:12:27+01:00 +description: Some troubleshooting tips for successfully flashing Heltec v3 nodes on + Ubuntu. draft: false -description: Some troubleshooting tips for successfully flashing Heltec v3 nodes on Ubuntu. -url: /2024/10/19/flashing-heltec-meshtastic -type: posts mp-syndicate-to: - https://brid.gy/publish/mastodon +preview: /social/67708e6551103f8ef527ae7b2de6048921e868a435f4fc6f32c038bb0efd7b34.png tags: - - meshtastic - - ubuntu - - linux - - heltec +- meshtastic +- ubuntu +- linux +- heltec +title: Flashing Heltec v3 nodes on Ubuntu +type: posts +url: /2024/10/19/flashing-heltec-meshtastic --- - I recently purchased a [Heltec v3 Radio](https://heltec.org/project/wifi-lora-32-v3/) after being inspired by [Jan Wildeboer](https://social.wildeboer.net/@jwildeboer/113191557900339340) and in turn [Andy Kirby](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yt6NOm0Gdy8) to try out [meshtastic](https://meshtastic.org/), a LoRa mesh network that facilitates off-grid messaging over a mesh network. I purchased my radio from AliExpress and it took a couple of weeks to get here but it arrived this morning. The first thing you need to do in order to connect it to the meshtastic network is flash the firmware onto the device. Meshtastic provide [a very fancy web-based firmware flashing tool](https://flasher.meshtastic.org/) which uses standard browser APIS in Chromium to talk to your device over USB serial port in order to write the new firmware. The [provided documentation](https://meshtastic.org/docs/getting-started/) is very good and provides links to USB drivers for windows and mac. As it happens, drivers for linux are typically already installed in modern distributions like Ubuntu but there may be a little bit of extra work involved in setting things up so that your machine can use them. @@ -76,4 +77,4 @@ Once you get this far you should be able to follow the meshtastic instructions a ### What to do next -Once you're done flashing your device you can start connecting to the mesh network. Check out some of the other meshtastic resources over at the [meshtastic website](https://meshtastic.org) or [Andy Kirby's youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@andykirby). +Once you're done flashing your device you can start connecting to the mesh network. Check out some of the other meshtastic resources over at the [meshtastic website](https://meshtastic.org) or [Andy Kirby's youtube channel](https://www.youtube.com/@andykirby). \ No newline at end of file