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## What is Meshtastic?
Meshtastic® is a project that lets you use inexpensive GPS mesh radios as an extensible, super long battery life mesh GPS communicator. These radios are great for hiking, skiing, paragliding - essentially any hobby where you don't have reliable internet access. Each member of your private mesh can always see the location and distance of all other members and any text messages sent to your group chat.
Meshtastic® is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service. These radios are great for hiking, skiing, paragliding - essentially any hobby where you don't have reliable internet access. Each member of the mesh can send and view text messages and enable optional GPS based location features.
The radios automatically create a mesh to forward packets as needed, so everyone in the group can receive messages from even the furthest member. The radios will optionally work with your phone, but no phone is required.
Meshtastic uses LoRa for the long range communcations and depending on settings used the maximum theoritical group size ranges from 30-200 device nodes. Currently each device can only support a connection from a single user at a time.
Please see our [website](https://meshtastic.org) for more information about Meshtastic.

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## What is Meshtastic?
Meshtastic® is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service. These radios are great for hiking, skiing, paragliding - essentially any hobby where you don't have reliable internet access. Each member of the mesh can send and view text messages on the primary channel and enable optional GPS based location features.
Meshtastic® is a project that lets you use inexpensive LoRa radios as a long range off-grid communicator for areas without reliable cellular service. These radios are great for hiking, skiing, paragliding - essentially any hobby where you don't have reliable internet access. Each member of the mesh can send and view text messages and enable optional GPS based location features.
The radios automatically create a mesh to forward packets as needed, so everyone in the group can receive messages from even the furthest member. The radios will optionally work with your phone, but no phone is required.

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The RAK WisBlock is a low power modular hardware system that can be used to build Meshtastic devices. Soldering is only required for the OLED screen.
The RAK WisBlock is a low power modular hardware system that can be used to build Meshtastic devices. Soldering is only required for the optional OLED screen.
You will need a [base board](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-base), a [core 4631 LPWAN module](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-core/products/rak4631-lpwan-node) and optionally a [1910 GPS sensor](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-sensor/products/rak1910-max-7q-gnss-location-sensor) to build a Meshtastic device.
You will need a [base board](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-base), a [core 4631 LPWAN module](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-core/products/rak4631-lpwan-node) and optionally a GPS Sensor to build a Meshtastic device.
Both available base boards ([5005](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-base/products/rak5005-o-base-board) & [19003](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-base/products/wisblock-base-board-rak19003)) have a reset button, support an OLED screen, and have built in connectors for a 3.7V LIPO battery (max 4.3V) and 5V Solar panel (max 5.5V)
A user button is not possible with the 19003 base board, it may be possible to add a user button to the 5005 base board using the [13002 IO module](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-interface/products/adapter-module-rak13002).
The RAK 1910 GPS is supported on slot A of the 5005 board currently.
To add a GPS to the 5005 base board you need the [1910 GPS sensor](https://store.rakwireless.com/collections/wisblock-sensor/products/rak1910-max-7q-gnss-location-sensor) it is supported on slot A of the 5005 board via UART.
To add a GPS to the 19003 base board you need the [12500 GPS sensor](https://store.rakwireless.com/products/wisblock-gnss-location-module-rak12500) it is supported via I2C on slot B for firmware versions 1.49 and above.
Flashing the firmware is a simple process connect your device via usb and click the reset button twice and a drive will appear on Windows Linux or Mac drag the appropriate .uf2 firmware file onto the root of the drive and the firmware will be updated.

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The Meshtastic iOS app is currently available in TestFlight as a public beta with a projected App Store release in early 2022.
There are plenty of remaining beta spaces available and there are no codes.
iOS 15 is required and you can sign up by opening the following link on any iOS device with TestFlight installed.
https://testflight.apple.com/join/c8nNl8q1
An alpha MacOS application is available in the beta TestFlight app for MacOS currently available to Apple developers
An alpha MacOS application is available in the beta TestFlight app for MacOS currently available to Apple developers.
Code from two previous community projects is also available.