We have a very cool one for you all this time, Meshtastic but for maker projects! If you haven’t heard about meshtastic its a really cool open source project that uses LoRa devices to send messages in a peer-to-peer meshing network - you are essentially working with strangers to build a community off-grid network. It is a really cool project that has been adopted largely as a hobby. We saw a lot of potential for its use in sending data wirelessly in maker projects, and so we are making a short course on how to do so: “Meshtastic for Makers Workshop”
Welcome to the Meshtastic for Makers Workshop, a short course that teaches you everything you need to know about Meshtastic so you can go out and start wirelessly sending information in your projects with the Meshtastic network. This workshop is des…
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How do you persist code for the Meshtastic Makers Workshop? Specifically, Ch 4-5 - Controlling Hardware and Sending Data - please give me a clue how to keep this working outside the lab and off the bench? Great course, thank you.
Hey Scott, welcome to the forums,
If you save the code to the Pico and call it main.py, it will automatically run when powered on!
What ever script has this name, the Pico will run it when it boots up.
Thank you for the kind words, and if you need a hand with anything else let us know!
Thanks for helping (clueless) me out, Jaryd. I’m stuck for the moment trying to get meshtastic and micropython to co-exist on my ESP32-S3. Installing one disables the other so far.
We attempted to get them both running on the same microcontroller as well but found that it wasn’t really possible. This is why in the series we have one microcontroller running MicroPython, and another running the Meshtastic firmware.
Ohhhh. I thought it was just because of the sensors you wanted to use. Now I get it, Thanks again!
