📣 GIVEAWAY: WisMesh Board ONE

[gilded copper]

Hey, everyone!

We’re excited to see what you will create with WisMesh Board ONE, our compact and modular baseboard designed just for the Meshtastic ecosystem.

To celebrate the innovation in this community, we’ll pick 2 winners to receive:

→ 1x WisMesh Board ONE
→ 1x WisMesh Board ONE Pocket

All you have to do is tell us what you’d build with it! Drop your project idea in this thread.

Check out the WisMesh Board ONE: https://bit.ly/3Gt5vFX

If you’re in the US, buy from **Rokland **for fast and local delivery: https://bit.ly/3IDbyrV

⏰ Contest ends at July 25

[tall pulsar]

Would like turn WisMesh Board One into the solar home base station at home and the WisMesh Board One Pocket for everyday commute buddy aka tracker !

[woeful prawn]

Love my WisMesh Pocket, would love to build one into a mobile node in my truck! I have an idea for installing one in the 3rd brake light and tying it to keyed power with an external battery for the few days I'm not driving a week. Would be a great addition to my off grid hunting comms set-up

[inner saffron]

Chicken food and water levels and other cool Meshtastic projects as a software engineering student.
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I’d use it to build a Lora based chicken water and feed sensor that reports the current percentage of food and water from the coop into my home assistant dashboard.

It currently uses a random Lora board I had lying around jankily soldered together and is unreliable so a new Rak WiseMesh board ONE would be sweet! It reads data from an Arduino nano via serial that’s connected to 2 ultrasonic sensors. The data packet is in this form “W22F12P1” where w means water distance, f means food distance and p means presence of water where the chickens drink from (I haven’t implemented this yet).

Another Lora board receives the message and sends it over to my mqtt server hosted on my home assistant Pi. The data is then read from the json mqtt message and the water and food levels are extracted and graphed on my HA dashboard.

Once the water or food hits empty it sends a notification to my iPad that displays the dashboard on the wall.

For the board ONE pocket I’d use it for testing different bridging applications like custom locally hosted AIs to the mesh and try out data analysis on my local mesh, as well as using it as the link to home assistant for the chickens.

These boards would be a great addition for me to create personal projects to help my mesh community -and my chickens! - as a software engineering student.

The food and water monitoring is my first project and I hope to make many more enabled by utilising these boards!

[rough oriole]

How fun! I've actually been considering deploying a node at a family member's house to provide coverage in a dead zone. That being said, having options to switch around mobile nodes based on what's needed for the day would also be useful, so the options are plentiful!

-# Emoji kitchen suggested this pile of smileys. Not sure why it was recommended for this message, but I'll go ahead and include it 😁

[empty inlet]

I'd setup a node at a buddy's house. He's interested in meshtastic but keeps saying silly stuff like he needs to be "responsible" and he needs to "save money for his wedding". idk what he's on about but I'd love to get him setup and let him start playing around 😛

[inland verge]

Just here to say this is awesome and I hope whoever wins makes a thread in #1197926994411794543 to update us on their progress! ❤️

[lucid osprey]

I'd loan it to others to get into the meshtastic craze! Either way I hope whoever wins this contest will enjoy!

[stark dome]

I would like to set up a weather station with solar charging. Not revolutionary, but I would also try to control my A/C based on temp readings.

[dusky dagger]

Love mine and want to make another for a possible for my go box for my ham equipment

[mental seal]

Would like to make a node for my brother. Cant seem to convince him to get one.

[elfin glen]

Track my car 😮

[dense igloo]

I’d love to have a WisMesh Board One so I can design cases and set up a portable solar-powered node that I can carry and move around school! Together with a few friends, we’re planning to create a central hub with GPS tracking—so even if it gets moved or tampered with, we’ll know where it is. We also want to connect environmental sensors to monitor things like electrical usage, whether it's deployed indoors or outdoors. So we can learn, experiment, and contribute to a more connected campus!

[gloomy igloo]

What I would love to do (but is very ambitious):

Strap it to a drone (that I do not yet own) and measure signal strengths, maybe by getting a drone that could follow an autonomous route. Then maybe create an autonomous routine that launches it (like in case of power outage) to act as a repeater for a large area. I think the WisMesh Board ONE Pocket would be good for that.

What I would more likely do:

Hook the node up to an app that I would write (I know Golang). A very easy one is hooking it into Ollama running local LLMs for an AI bot, but I would be more interested in something that does stuff. acars-processor, an app I wrote uses LLMs to process ACARS messages based on user-provided prompts - maybe I could monitor Meshtastic messages, looking for specific topics or types of messages base on prompts. I like the idea of hooking Meshtastic into the internet or to advanced apps to give folks with nothing but a node the ability to do cool stuff. The WisMesh Board ONE would be great for this kind of thing.

As it is, I'm unemployed right now so I'd likely have the time to tinker lol.

[sick kestrel]

Hi, this is awesome! I would build a node out of the WisMesh Board ONE and give that to someone new to the hobby to get them started. I would use the WisMesh Board ONE Pocket as another mobile node, I have several for different purposes depending on location and need.

[toxic iris]

I would use it to build a solar repeater near our local state park's popular swimming area. I have access to privately owned property that butts up against that area. Then I could use it as a way to teach others about meshtastic.

[finite owl]

I would use the wismesh board one to build a solar repeater for my area to expand the network out of town and into the hills. I would use the pocket to become an upgraded mobile node to carry and then repurpose my current nodes into additional solar nodes throughout the area.

[glass token]

I’d use it to figure out if my flatmate left the garage door open again, which they do with regularity!

[violet cargo]

I would make it into a portable node and attach an amp to it to make it even better.

[lavish root]

I would build myself a new node and give away my current one so I grow the coverage in my surrounding.

[quaint gust]

I'd love to use the WisMesh Board ONE to build a compact, solar-powered Meshtastic relay node with GPS tracking for reliable off-grid communication. In my region, the Meshtastic network is still very underdeveloped, so this would be a great starting point to establish local coverage. I’m planning to deploy it on high ground to maximize signal reach for hiking, and rural connectivity. The OLED it's a plus to make it ideal for diagnostics and future upgrades. My goal is to build a small, self-sustaining node network and help others in my area discover the power of open, decentralized communication.

Good luck

[gilded copper]

❗ Contest ends 7/25

[steel forum]

Honestly I'd use them for nothing special whatsoever, the board would just be for a solar node as I only have ESP32-based devices right now (and with SLA battery not lithium due to the climate here), and the pocket would be carried around/general purpose.

[rain crag]

I really need a good Mesh product that has GPS, attach it to an amp and solar panel so I can mount it somewhere. Set it and Forget it (for short periods of time 🤣 )

[sharp musk]

I’d make a portable solar node I can take with me on trips or out camping

[lethal pendant]

I would build a solar repeater in my area that has quite a few Meshtastic users but it’s difficult for us to build a stable RF mesh and this would help!

[warped creek]

Yup, I am afraid I wouldnt do anything groundbreaking - I need a dedicated "ruck" node that can travel with me in the woods.

[desert elm]

Trying to build a network in my area so I would use it to build a node. I would either give to someone or place in an area to extend our small existing network.

[oblique notch]

I've posted this in the Reddit but it's easier to put pictures here. I plan to marry a B1 with this android flip phone (Cat S22) for the ultimate communicator

[leaden sparrow]

I would use the WisMesh Board One to create a solar powered node for my region which is poorly covered so far. The pocket variant would be my edc device.

[swift scroll]

I would like to build a solar light node using the ONE. Or, a pocket node for my parents using the ONE Pocket

[heady canopy]

I need to build a mobile solar node for deployment. On a tree, on the car, in the office.

[foggy hamlet]

Ground station node to an emergency tethered drone tower (WisBlock Mini) node.

[void pike]

I'm trying to add this to my farm to control automatic pump controller. This automatic controller got gsm sim but issue is no good network and the seller got more control over that device than me.

What I'm going to do is remove that gsm module (it works on SMS and app) it listens for particular words to activate relay. That's where I connect meshtastic to control over 9km distance.

[copper bridge]

I'd use it for a mobile node for the car.

[vale fog]

I'm trying to get the folks in my office to get meshtastic radios so I'd use this one as a base station repeater for the mesh in my building!

[wintry citrus]

Setup on at our local ema building

[stone sierra]

I would use the wismesh board ONE to set up a monitoring station in my well pump house. I need a way to know the temp in there for when it goes below freezing and to tell me whether or not the power is still on in there. I'd have it relay the info to another wismesh board in my cabin where it has more reliable power and has internet connectivity to be able to let me know the temp and power status hopefully so I could get over there and start a generator or fix whatever needs fixing.

[upbeat finch]

I would probably use the dev board for a car node (don't have one of those yet) and then give the Pocket to my wife so she has a node of her own. 🙂

[dire belfry]

I work in a Very Large Mall™ that happens to be a huge tourist attraction, also a massive dead zone. I've made direct contact with quite a few visitors from out of town who are exploring the place. If I won the Board ONE, it would absolutely go towards setting up a robust CLIENT-mode repeater to cover the area, with the obligatory environmental telemetry and all. I'd also absolutely love to run a little BBS to share status updates, recommend places to eat, attractions worth checking out, and so on.

As for the Board ONE Pocket, it would be my go-to "base station" node for camping, road trips, and other outings! I carry around a ~10ft extendable tripod thing in the trunk of my car that would be exceptionally easy to design a mount for, and it would be perfect for boosting range whenever I need it to. It would even sit in a little charging cradle on the dash when not in use. All my current nodes are either purpose-built to be mounted in a specific spot, or are communicators with keyboards and stuff. It would be amazing to have something a more flexible on hand!

[cyan sphinx]

Ideally a solar roof mounted node, then some good rugged mobile gps enabled nodes for a layer of emergency comms. Also playing with the ATAK plugin.

Also would like to do a weather station node and feed the data into ATAK.

[deep iris]

I've been planning on adding a solar-powered node to the top of the oak in my backyard. Just waiting to get a proper unit set up before scheduling a tree service to go up there to mount it (on top of pruning some iffy branches).

[livid pumice]

I'm going to be bland and say put a repeater in my roof so I don't have to do the lightpost node and still get a crap signal.

[maiden raptor]

I don't have any meshtastic device so I'd use it as portable node. In the future I will think about building solar powered weather station.

[flat whale]

I would use the Board ONE as part of a solar-powered station and weather sensor on a family member's balcony, and use the Pocket as my personal carry node.

[misty lance]

Solar powered station that would go atop my local HAM repeater

[latent ibex]

I'd build a solar-powered car roof-top node

[wind sentinel]

I would plan on making a home station with the wismesh board one to have my first node

[stray atlas]

I'd build a solar node for my 5th wheel.

Perm mounted, with sensors to monitor temp, hum, pressure, AQI, etc

[meager gate]

Add an air pressure sensor to alert me when someone breaks the window of my car.

[latent ibex]

If the contest ended yesterday, who was the winner? 🙂

[terse sentinel]

I would use this to set up a neighborhood near Pittsburgh that's not yet connected to our mesh with a solar node up high and a mobile node to talk with other meshers.

[void pike]

Who was the winner??

[oblique notch]

I hope it's me :3

I REALLY dont want to try to solder a 90 degree battery connector on a 19007 for my flip phone project. I'd like it to be reproducable without soldering

[green lily]

ah didn't see this! 🙂

[inner saffron]

Does anyone know who won?

[oblique notch]

Good news! There's another giveaway

[void pike]

Who was winner of this one though

[fringe vector]

RAK plans to post the winners tomorrow.

[young comet]

Well I have been thinking about making a solar power base for my home and get a strong antenna to bridge the gap to all the locations to the north and west of my location. I also want to make it so I don't need to climb up to connect/update so going to run some cabling or make connect a Bluetooth module. Still debating...

[gilded copper]

🏆 WisMesh Board ONE Giveaway [Winners Announced]

We’re thrilled to reveal the winners of the WisMesh Board ONE Giveaway

1. @gloomy igloo
2. @inner saffron

Please send me a direct message to claim your prize.

Thanks to everyone who joined!

[gloomy igloo]

Wooo! Thank you so much! 🥹

[dire belfry]

Congrats to the winners!!

[timber bolt]

Thanks @gilded copper for organizing this.

[oblique notch]

I won the Reddit contest and after sending some information I haven't heard anything. Any other winners receive their prizes yet?

[inner saffron]

Not yet but I got a shipping notification for it a few days ago. It seems like it just took them a little whittle to send them out

[gloomy igloo]

Mine arrived today!! Excited to start playing with them 🙂

[oblique notch]

Mine came! Shame I didn't get any emails about it, but glad they showed up. I got a B1 with oled/gps and the new wismesh pocket with 3dp case. I don't need the latter so I'll be giving it out to a local mesher who doesn't have a node yet