Hey everyone,

I don’t know about you but I have been watching the news every day and it’s hard not to think about how what’s happening in MN could easily be Buffalo or Rochester. I feel motivated to do something productive and within my skill set so I wanted to reach out to everyone here to let you know who I am and what I can offer.

I’ve recently picked up mesh communications. I’m investing pretty heavily in it and will have nodes in Brighton, East Rochester and Fairport. Bunch of RAK and T-Beams coming in and plan to run meshtastic and meshcore at each location. If you know more than me I’d be happy to learn from you and take advice, if you’re curious and don’t know how to get started I’m happy to share what I’ve learned so far.

There is the current ROCMesh Discord: https://discord.gg/wQQ4XQjQtp

I’m also pursuing my own spaces for this topic under the name 585915

I don’t love Discord so I’ve also set up a Matrix room on my Conduit based server: https://matrix.to/#/#585915:matrix.makearmy.io

Finally I’ve set up a lemmy community for this specific topic which can be found here: https://lemmy.makearmy.io/c/585915

I’ve set up an array of fediverse and self hosted tools to help us work together to create things together as a community under the name MakeArmy. You’re also welcome to use or contribute to them as you’d like:

Lemmy: https://lemmy.makearmy.io/ Mastodon: https://mastodon.makearmy.io/explore Pixelfed: https://pixels.makearmy.io/ Misskey: https://deck.makearmy.io/ Peertube: https://watch.makearmy.io/ Forgejo: https://forge.makearmy.io/ IRC: https://irc.makearmy.io/ Privatebin: https://paste.makearmy.io/

I have a sizable underground workshop in East Rochester with 3D printers, lasers, basic carpentry tools, lab electronics and more. If you require those facilities we could talk. I am looking forward to meeting some like-minded people in my community to work on these and other projects together.

I’m new to all of this and I’m figuring it out as I go. I’m open to feedback and contributions as I said earlier but I’m trying to do something within my range to better the community. If you plan to use any of the above let me know so I can keep an eye out for you - managing all of these is a lot and it can be hard to keep track of as people come and go but it’s how I feel I can try to make a difference.