I am working on a short write up about Meshtastic. Basically Meshtastic is an off-grid messaging system that uses low cost hardware. I’ve been playing with it for a little while. I am still setting some stuff up, but if you would like to join my MQTT server for it and connect to more people, use the following credentials when setting up MQTT on your nodes. This will also work with an alternate project called Meshcore, they are not compatible with one another out of the box, however, I am looking at how to build a bridge between the two networks. As an added bonus, you do not need a HAM license or any kind of license to use either one of these projects.
So far in my area, there are many nodes and the network is growing every day!
Info to connect to my server is below.
Address: home.danielmaat.net
Username: public
password: meshtasticisfun
Enjoy!!!