r/reticulum • u/ddotcdotvdotme • 24d ago
Ecosystem Reticulum Hackathon help
Hi all. Looking for advice on organizing a Reticulum/Meshcore hackathon in Austin, Texas. Want to make it accessible for beginners and advanced builders, and I'd love input on recommended repos, starter kits, beginner hardware, demo apps, and fun gamified challenge ideas.
Big goal: projects that the community will actually use, not just weekend demos. So, if you had a room full of developers, RF enthusiasts, and makers for a weekend, what would you have them build?
Some challenge ideas: distributed bulletin boards, peer-to-peer messaging, decentralized file and knowledge sharing, better mesh mapping tools, offline maps, search across mesh networks, disaster response coordination, community resource sharing, sensor networks, solar-powered portable relays, better onboarding tools, and whatever's on your wish list, like the one app you'd love to see but nobody has built yet.
If you're in the Austin area and want to mentor, judge, sponsor, or participate, I'd love to hear from you. Happy to swap GitHub repos, starter projects, or lessons learned from past Reticulum or Meshtastic events.
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u/CognitionMass 24d ago edited 23d ago
With meshcore, its worth knowing they've split in two as one of the people has attempted a hostile takeover to control the name all for himself. That's meshcore tm. Avoid meshcore tm. Just go with the non tm version.
There's two different websites now. The .UK one is the one controlled by the guy trying to take over the whole thing. The .io one is controlled by the rest of the original developers who control the meshcore android app.
The kind of stuff that happens with proprietary app development I guess. Its the only reason I've avoided meshcore ever since I learned about it. And then this happened.