Cyberpony Express [Sticker Only]

This project began as a discussion around a campfire at a land project in Tennessee, where people discussed how we could build an off-grid internet to enable secure, off-grid text messaging between intentional communities without using the public internet or other fragile infrastructure.

It was immediately obvious that this would also be enormously beneficial for things like disaster preparedness and response.

Further conversations led to the idea of hosting the nodes of this network in community gardens which are already hubs of communications and resource distribution.

The Cyberpony Express was born!

LoRa

The technology we are using for the Cyberpony Express is called LoRa or long-range radio. This is an open-source technology which uses a free, open-source software stack called Meshtastic to enable secure, end-to-end-encrypted communication between devices across distances of twenty miles or more.

The network we are building will be free and public, enabling anyone to communicate securely without needing to use the internet or public cell phone networks.

Additionally, it natively supports mesh networking, meaning you're able to reach people several hops away across multiple nodes. A city like San Francisco is only seven miles across, meaning this technology is enormously powerful in terms of enabling secure and resilient communications, especially during disasters.

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