Autonomous Nodes for Grassroot Communication Infrastructure: Build Solar-powered Relays

The goal of the workshop is to build a solar-powered radio network linking different locations across TBD.  Participants learn about solar panels, lithium polymer batteries, power management and driving microcontrollers.  Our telecommunications infrastructure will be made up of nodes that can work without mains power or Internet uplink.

The key to resilent and autonomous community networks is renewable energy and offgrid operation.  Such nodes can be deployed in locations without power source or used to conserve energy, but also to stay online when the power grid goes down.  Therefore, they are ideal components for providing connectivity to end users of mesh networks.

We will work with the network deployed on the previous day (Saturday), make it run on renewable energy and/or maybe extend it further.  The workshop builds on the Saturday deployment workshop, so it assumes familiarity with Reticulum Transport Nodes and the Reticulum Network Stack (RNS).  Participants develop the nodes deployed at TBD further by making them autonomous, e.g. solar powered.
 

Exact time will be announced latest on Thursday.