Hackers' Pub

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Wes Davis @theverge.space @wes_davis@theverge.space

4/28/2025, 7:51:55 PM

Public

BBSes are back, bbs.

IEEE Spectrum wrote about running an old-school bulletin-board system (BBS) from a Raspberry Pi 3 over LoRa, using the off-grid mesh-networking capabilities of Meshtastic, and it sounds like a very fun, nerdy project.

I didn’t have internet access early enough to get in on the BBS craze at its height. Perhaps this is my second chance?

Can Meshtastic Radios Revive the Charm of Old School Bullletin Board Systems?

Meshtastic

An open source, off-grid, decentralized, mesh network built to run on affordable, low-power devices

meshtastic.org

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