Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs.
Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application.
Parent. Trying not to suck at it.
Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh.
Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem.
Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks.
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Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
An opportunity to work for a great dude, at a fun company…
If this is in your wheelhouse you should jump at this opportunity before it’s too late.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Over lunch today I was able to address the firmware issue in #SpectraMesh - and released the firmware for the T-LoRa Pager (finally!)
If you want to check out the release notes, they're here: https://spectramesh.net/updates (click "changelog" to see)
If you want to flash the firmware, it's available on the web flasher: https://spectra.wrewtopia.com
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
What do you call a dog who does magic?
A labracadabrador!
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
The T-Lora Pager is so tiny and cute - I kinda love it!
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
The first messages on #SpectraMesh from the ThinkNode M1 have been sent and received!
There's more work to do on the firmware, but it boots and can send/receive messages, which is most of the battle.
I may call it a night here and relax - the rest can happen tomorrow.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
The #SpectraMesh git repo has been migrated over to Codeberg (link below). This will allow others to contribute to it - should they so choose - and hopefully it will go somewhere.
The existing repo on hackers.town forge will no longer be maintained.
New repo is here: https://codeberg.org/thewrew/spectra-mesh
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
you want a seriously righteous hack, you score one of those @thegibson@masto.hackers.town
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
I releases the GUI companion and Android APK for #SpectraMesh - both can be found on the releases page of the git repository linked here. I also updated the firmware bins on the web flasher to the latest stable firmware with BLE support.
I’ll be moving the git repo over to codeberg later this week to allow others to contribute.
I also got a Lilygo T-Beam that arrived today - I’ll start working on porting the firmware to support it.
Exciting day!
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Feeling a little irreverent right now, so spending a little time wiring up a few easter eggs into Spectra.
I miss easter eggs in software - it's so easy to add and almost universally brings some joy. It should be a thing more often than it is. I will be adding easter eggs to all of my projects going forward.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
The next person to follow me will be follower 666!
I'm not sure why but this amuses me so much.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Looking for anyone who wants to help test #Spectra with me.
Ping me here and we'll get something set up.
MeshCore or Meshtastic - either works!
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
#spectra v0.4.0 has been released! Last rapid fire release - I promise!
Partial changelog:
1. Support for stock MeshCore USB Companion firmware (not BLE... yet)
2. Manage radio channel settings from Spectra with new commands
3. Log level now set to info, and flag added to set log location
4. Install script fixed - will now reliably pull latest version (oooops).
More details and full changelog here: https://forge.hackers.town/Wrewdison/Spectra/releases
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
I may have to revisit my passive radar project soon. I want to see if I can get it to work before I head back to work in a couple of weeks.
Maybe later this week I can look at it again.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Spectra v0.4.0 development underway - the big feature of this release will be support for the stock MeshCore USB Companion firmware that is available on their web flasher.
This will make it a lot more approachable for those who want to use MeshCore, as all you have to do is plug the radio in and load up spectra and you're off and running.
I've got the implementation done, so now it's just a matter of testing while I add some other small features and bug fixes.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Ya know, if you want to send and receive messages on a radio.... it's usually a good idea to make sure the radio is properly configured to talk on the frequency you're trying to use.
Or, you know, so I've heard.
oops.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Spectra v0.3.0 has been released!
Partial changelog:
- New architecture allows for headless mode with ability to attach TUI session
- Fix for meshtastic secondary channel support
- MacOS support w/pre-compiled binary for Apple Silicon
- Improved error logging
- install script w/support for Linux (amd64 and arm64) and MacOS (Apple Silicon) - auto-detects architecture and installs correct binary.
Can get it here: https://forge.hackers.town/Wrewdison/Spectra
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
Spectra v0.3.0 is looking really solid right now. I may end up pushing a release of it later today at this rate.
Changes so far:
- Added --daemon mode flag which will launch as a backgrounded daemon.
- Added --attach flag to attach a TUI session to a running daemon (without having to kill the daemon first)
- MacOS support!
- Improved error handling and logging
- Installation script w/upgrade handling
Theres some smaller things in there too, but these are the big ones
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
It's Monday - let's find reasons to smile, find joy in the little things, and make this week the best we can in the face of an increasingly insane world.
I've got some chores to do around the house this week, but also will work on getting Spectra v0.3.0 ready for launch. I've already found some bugs that will be squashed - but even with those it's looking really good.
Go forth, and #hacktheplanet
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot
I really need to find time in the next week to clean my office / lab.
Mad Scientist responsible for Wrewtopia Labs. Hacker focused on electronics and RF hacking, and the occasional web application. Parent. Trying not to suck at it. Creator of VoidMantisOS for the hackers.town pager, Aardvark Social (a distributed social network app), and Spectra Mesh. Old enough to be nostalgic for the sounds of a dialup modem. Most posts self destruct after 2 weeks. #NoBot