sexy_peach

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[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 9 points 1 month ago

I hope this is a good title ^^

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 14 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Hmm I thought it was disliked behavior. I'll change it then!

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 19 points 1 month ago (4 children)

yup.

But I have to post it with the original title, correct? Or would it be fine for me to give it a more descriptive one?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago

This is pretty funny

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 6 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Das war vor Jahrzehnten schon ein Auslaufmodell

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago

I don't have one. It's to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.

It's basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.

It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 1 points 2 months ago

Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 2 points 2 months ago

Yeah I don't have one around ^^

Actually though that's not true, last night I found an old device of me that I could harvest a 18650 battery from.

 

cross-posted from: https://feddit.org/post/2189807

Held together without any solder ^^

Uses an old phone battery for power and is housed in the box that the heltec v3 hardware was shipped in. Unfortunately I had to bend a row of pins to fit it in the box with the battery, but this is only because on my model the two rows of pins are already soldered in. Normally they should be included extra I think.

I am seeing lots of other meshtastic devices, but haven't yet managed to send a message. Maybe I am not in a good location or I need a better antenna.

Kinda want to buy a second device just for messing around with two of these ^^

I highly recommend buying off of aliexpress directly.

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Held together without any solder ^^

Uses an old phone battery for power and is housed in the box that the heltec v3 hardware was shipped in. Unfortunately I had to bend a row of pins to fit it in the box with the battery, but this is only because on my model the two rows of pins are already soldered in. Normally they should be included extra I think.

I am seeing lots of other meshtastic devices, but haven't yet managed to send a message. Maybe I am not in a good location or I need a better antenna.

Kinda want to buy a second device just for messing around with two of these ^^

I highly recommend buying off of aliexpress directly.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (4 children)

That's cool, will you post your setup in the meshtastic community?

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 4 points 2 months ago (6 children)

Honestly just get a heltec v3 from aliexpress, it's only like 12€.

The board works with the cellphone battery, even with just holding the wires to the contacts ^^

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 9 points 2 months ago (8 children)

Yes exactly that's what I am trying to do. I just found a 3.7v battery in an ancient cellphone of mine, maybe that'll work as well.

[–] sexy_peach@feddit.org 14 points 2 months ago (5 children)

Assuming that you're living in the US I think the secret is that disposable vapes aren't as abundant in Germany yet.

 

Any ideas?

 

Is it possible to power the heltec v3 with NIMH batteries? Like maybe 4 in series (4.8v) or 3 in series (3.6v)?

Would it even charge them or is the charging only for li-ion battery packs like the 3.7v one that everyone suggests?

I don't want to buy it if I don't need it, I have old NIMH batteries in abundance and I'm not sure what my final setup should look like yet.

 
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