Category: Chatgpt
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Reticulum: A Precision Trace Among 7 Nodes
What actually happens inside a Reticulum mesh running over LoRa when two endpoints cannot communicate directly? I built a seven-node testbed using LilyGo T-Beam SUPREME units named AMY, BOB, CY, DAN, ED, FLO, and GUY. AMY and GUY exchange one encrypted “Hi” message per minute, while software-defined radio blocks force their traffic through the other…
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Reticulum Testing: Seeing the Invisible Transmissions
highly technical I’m testing microReticulum, a C++ implementation of Reticulum. I’ve specifically been testing the LINK and transport mechanism. I have three units: BOB, CY & DAN. While all three units are within broadcast range of one another, I have purposefully caused BOB and CY not to be able to receive each other’s transmissions. This…
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Creating A Specification After the Fact Using AI
Introduction Protocol specifications are normally written before independent implementations are attempted. The specification is the common contract: it tells each implementer what must be sent, what must be accepted, what may be rejected, and what behavior is expected. Reticulum and LXMF present a different problem: much of the “protocol” must be inferred from a working…
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Herding T-Beam Cats
Highly technical, but written for those who are blessed with curiosity Introduction I’m testing microReticulum, a C++ implementation of the Reticulum protocol developed by Chad Attermann, on 7 LilyGo T-Beam SUPREMEs. The T-Beams use the ESP32-S, a game-changing small processor. I’ve built an elaborate testing bench which I wanted to document should someone in the…
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Hardware-in-the-Loop AI Debugging: Reticulum Bluetooth on the T-Beam Supreme Works
Highly Technical Harnessing AI to control USB-connected devices can dramatically shorten hardware debugging cycles. I have successfully integrated the ble-reticulum C++ (protocol created by Torlando) interface into the microReticulum code. I built a binary image for the ESP32-based LilyGo! T-Beam SUPREME which I loaded into two T-Beams. The two T-Beams then negotiate a Bluetooth “pairing”…