PierMesh
What is PierMesh?
A LoRa (long range low power radio) and other technologies (Halow at the moment) based mesh network.
A new lightweight internet for marginalized people most impacted by the whims of tech giants.
FOSS (free and open source down to the firmware & potentially beyond).
Easy and cheap (around $17), or free depending on adoption to connect to.
Encrypted
STATUS: Prototype complete, firmware actively under development by utopicwork/Agie that will enable transceiver only setup (to make things as cheap as possible), library over lora in development, peer to peer cryptography being formulated
How will it work?Seamlessly, the network will be accessible via web interface for end users and via multiple interfaces for operators which can be exposed to the wider internet if desired
July 28th, 2025
Website updated, currently working on adding Reticulum as an additional network to communicate on which is going well, transport cryptography for Meshtastic based communication is largely completed
November 26th, 2024
The prototype is
cleaned up and available here: https://codeberg.org/ForthplaceNovember 23rd, 2024
The prototype code is out now https://git.utopic.work/PierMesh/piermesh/src/branch/dev.
I need to do a big cleanup of the code and docs which will be out Monday night but for now you can
see what I've been doing.November 12th, 2024
PierMesh
is almost ready for prototype release, it will be out by November 21st. There will be four artifacts
released: modified Meshtastic firmware with a static web server run from a micro sd and the gps
module turned off (at least for the transceivers we're using), a Pyodide version of PierMesh, a
JS bridge for reading and sending messages on the http api and a serial enabled version of the code
which was my main focus. Transport cryptography is done. I made an image protocol for sending art
across PierMesh and tons more. I'll do a proper long post about everything when it's in
shape. But keep an eye on here!August 17th,
2024
Cryptography needed more work then expected as did rectifying codebase changes
with existing code. Currently I am balancing a lot of different updates but I believe that doing it
this way will get things done faster. Here's what I'm working on: a better action paradigm,
object oriented filtering, submessages, easier protocol creation and a lot more. If you're
looking for another demo or more code keep a look out for those soon.August 10th, 2024
Let's just call them weekly updates. Regardless.
Simplified the creation of protocols by defining message types as classes so there's no need to
soft define messages though the ability remains to do so. Almost finished with Transport encryption
prototyping along with Catch functionality and Hopper functionality. Created an Index class for
Daisy in order to be able to search for Catchs easily and across the network. Also created a
repository for Daisy, though it's a WIP, because the code's becoming a bit too complex to
remain just part of the PierMesh code.August 3rd, 2024
Pre
prototype documentation and refactor/cleanup. You can find the docs here: https://git.utopic.work/PierMesh/piermesh/src/branch/main/docs#system-overview.
Also my apologies for being a couple hours late with this, still getting the hang of weekly
updates.July 26th, 2024
Pre prototype release https://git.utopic.work/piermesh/piermesh
along with a ton of e2ee work and TUI development. Each Friday I will be doing an update here from
now on to keep people updated.July 2, 2024
Apologies for
the wait but there's big news, there is now a repo for the project: https://git.utopic.work/piermesh/piermesh and
we have a Web UI prototype where I show off those features and talk about the state of the project:
https://iframe.mediadelivery.net/play/264069/870325b5-7ffb-4455-9fc3-add5d801575fMay 30, 2024
I've been architecting this month and handling some
other projects but I'm back to focusing on PierMesh. Today I set up some new hardware for
PierMesh: a security coprocessor over usb: https://utopic.work/devlogs/logs/002024/05.htmlApril 28, 2024
You can now subscribe to an RSS feed of my work
(including PierMesh) with this link: https://utopic.work/devlogs/feed.rssApril 24, 2024
Devlogs for all my projects can be found here now: https://utopic.work/devlogs/ currently it's not
filtered by projects but at some point Ill create that functionalityApril 23, 2024
Refactoring tests succeeding, breakthrough on n
dimensional networkingApril 14, 2024
Cut text packet size
by 75%+ using LZMA, got my Tumblr backApril 11, 2024
End to
end encryption core working, full implementation is almost complete. Packet templating implemented.
Modular/object oriented code refactor almost complete. Work Tumblr was deleted for some unknown
reason, moved entirely to BlueskyApril 4, 2024
Hopper
begins development, Microplane officially reaches prototype statusApril
2, 2024
Daisy and Catch reach prototype statusMarch 31,
2024
Development begins on Daisy, Bubble, CatchMarch 29,
2024
First successful html transmission/parsingMarch 19,
2024
Website updates, started components listMarch 15,
2024
First successful programmatic transmission test, arbitrary JSON can now be sent
and received.March 5th, 2024
Site created, more coming
soon
Microplane: algorithm to split files/data into properly sized packets for LoRaStatus: prototype
Catch: DNS analogStatus: prototype
Daisy: bson disk based distributed databaseStatus: prototype
Hopper: algorithm for consuming other network resourcesStatus: in development
Bubble: algorithm for peer to peer communicationStatus: in development
Siph: multi dimensional software defined network stackStatus: breakthrough due to discovery of hypergraphs, planning close to prototyping
Sessions: Connection sessions to maintain continuous peer to peer connectionStatus: planning
Pail: Daisy support for distributed graphs (gardens) and hypergraphs (greenhouses)Status: planning
Algae: No description currently provided to site.Status: Unknown.
Sap: No description currently provided to site.Status: Unknown.