Yeah I might upgrade to a 18650 cell that I reclaimed if the phone battery is too small.
Yeah I don’t have one around ^^
Actually though that’s not true, last night I found an old device of me that I could harvest a 18650 battery from.
That’s cool, will you post your setup in the meshtastic community?
Honestly just get a heltec v3 from aliexpress, it’s only like 12€.
The board works with the cellphone battery, even with just holding the wires to the contacts ^^
Yes exactly that’s what I am trying to do. I just found a 3.7v battery in an ancient cellphone of mine, maybe that’ll work as well.
Assuming that you’re living in the US I think the secret is that disposable vapes aren’t as abundant in Germany yet.
Oh that’s a good idea, I think supermarkets also collect batteries in general to recycle, maybe there I can find empty vapes.
Not in Berlin. I see them sometimes, but not often enough. I want one now ^^
Wanted to buy it in pink after seeing this post but it seems to be bad quality. Looks nice in the renders though.
I don’t have one. It’s to tinker with my first esp32 board and lora.
It’s basically a hobby. If you live somewhere super rural or something it might be interesting to chat with your neighbor or whatever but I think meshtastic is still too much in the alpha stage to be usable really.
It might be useful on a festival or something, where cell networks are overloaded and you and your friends can contact each other via meshtastic. Idk if that would work though.