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Meshtastic is neat and I always contemplate building a node for fun. However, I’ve yet to see many practical uses for it beyond maybe texting while hiking.

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Well I had many blogs about how to add sensors etc. Mostly I personally use it as walkie talkie but also I have seen people use it as a tracker for pets, and motion sensors at home maybe. I use it for temp sensor in each room in a handheld and I will take out for hikes etc.

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Seems like this could be very useful if in a country with poor communication systems or a wartorn area. Also worth saving (print it out perhaps) if in the US and Trump becomes king.

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It’s best use is alternative communications in a disaster, where the mobile network is affected. Or if a dictator decides to shut it off during a protest.

Overall it could work well as a communications means for activists in street protests since these often overload networks by sheer volume of users concentrated in one spot.

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If you’re at a concert or ball game or something, the local cell network can become overloaded.

I went to a multi-day festival with no cell reception and handed some out to friends and they worked a treat.

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