Meshtastic Bay Area Group

Cover image of Make: Magazine Volume 95 featuring the “Boards Guide 2026.” The top half includes a bold red MAKE: logo with white background. Below, the main visual shows a custom hardware board in close-up with multicolored electronic components, USB ports, and traces. Text overlay reads: “Boards Guide 2026: The Word is Board.” The design is clean and tech-focused, representing DIY hardware innovation.

Meshtastic is featured in Make: Magazine’s 2026 Boards Guide (Vol. 95)! 🙌

Big thanks to @shakataganai.bsky.social of the @bayme.sh and @makemagazin.de

Shoutout as well to our amazing hardware vendors — your support fuels the movement. 🙏

#Meshtastic #BoardsGuide #LoRa #OpenHardware

Under 200 MediumSlow nodes remaining. There is more MediumFast in Northern California than there is even LongFast.

If you're in NorCal and use #Meshtastic, join the MediumFast adventure!

Almost 500 nodes on #MediumFast, 250 remaining on MS for migration. If you've put up an MS node, time to make the jump! You can get from Yuba to Monterey without issue! #Meshtastic

The #BayMesh is going to #MediumFast! We're 24 hours in and already 50% migrated. If you're on MS, just change your preset to MF and you're good to go! The infra-nodes on mountain topes (like Thayer, Diablo, Sunol) have already made the jump.

#Meshtastic

The #BayMesh is going to #MediumFast! We're 24 hours in and already 50% migrated. If you're on MS, just change your preset to MF and you're good to go! The infra-nodes on mountain topes (like Thayer, Diablo, Sunol) have already made the jump.

#Meshtastic

🚀 The latest version of #Meshtastic in the App Store now includes full support for iOS26 & macOS26 🎉 Both add TCP support, and the macOS app also gains serial support for device connection. Update today to explore the latest!

#iOS26 #macOS26 #AppUpdate #AppleApps 

@sfoskywarn.bsky.social it was a pleasure to chat this weekend at #pacifico . Let’s figure out how we can get skywarn on the mesh!

A hand holds the LILYGO T-Deck Pro e-ink device showing the Meshtastic interface. The background resembles a newspaper, highlighting the e-ink screen theme. Text above reads “T-Deck Pro Now Supported!” with a link at the bottom: “https://flasher.meshtastic.org”.

👋 Support for the T-Deck Pro landed in v2.7.4 🎉 We never gave it a proper announcement—so if it slipped by, surprise! 🚀 It’s supported and ready in the #Meshtastic Flasher.

👉 Flash your T-Deck Pro now: msh.to/flash
👉 Don’t have one yet? Grab yours here: msh.to/t-deck-pro

Have you seen our new map upgrades? meshview.bayme.sh/map Just sit and watch for a minute. #RealTimeMesh

Join the Meshtastic Bay Area Group Discord Server! Check out the Meshtastic Bay Area Group community on Discord - hang out with 1643 other members and enjoy free voice and text chat.

Live in the #SFBayArea and are a #Ham or #Meshtastic user? Be sure to stop by our Discord and say hi! We're already trying to bring, educate and expand the mesh! discord.gg/GpsKbhGJx5

( #MontereyBay and #SacValley welcome too! )

Thanks to openterface.com for saving our bacon on the Telegramtastic printer this morning at #OpenSauce. #meshtastic

Coming to #OpenSauce? Flash your node now! Https://opensauce.meshtastic.org #Meshtastic #ShortTurbo

The #BayMesh #OpenSauce team. Stop by and say hi! Right in the center of the main (Fiesta) hall

When you absolutely positively need to charge your T1000E #OpenSauce #meshtastic

Make sure to come visit us this weekend at Expo Hall A, aka Fiesta Hall booth E12!

The Bay Mesh team will be volunteering at OpenSuace. Come by the booth and say hi!

How did the ShortFast adventure go? Still with it or did you go back?

Two weeks to #OpenSauce 2025. There are a bunch of #Meshtastic related creators that will be there, including an official Meshtastic booth. If you're in the area, stop by and say hi! We'll be there too!

opensauce.com

📢 Firmware 2.6.11 is out. We recommend updating as soon as possible.
🔍 Full details: github.com/meshtasti...
💻 Easily update using the web flasher: flasher.meshtastic.o...

Attention Meshtastic Users!
If you are located in Western Washington, we are coordinating a switch to ShortFast for the month of May. This should help our mesh grow and support more message traffic.

#pugetmesh #meshtastic #lora

We’ve been running MS for many months now and continuing to grow. It’s worked very well so far and been a better experience than LF.

SF is a serious jump in speed, we’re curious to hear how it goes for you!

Is LongFast Holding Your Mesh Back? Better LoRa Presets for Bigger Meshtastic Networks | Meshtastic Improve your local mesh network by moving away from the default LongFast preset to higher bandwidth options

📡 Does your #meshtastic mesh have 60+ nodes, high traffic, or is an urban area? If so, you may have outgrown the default LongFast modem preset. Learn when and why to switch for better performance.

🔗 Check out our latest blog post: meshtastic.org/blog/...

#LoRa #MeshNetworking

The SF Bay runs on #MediumSlow !

BSidesSF 2025: Decentralized Communications: Deep-Dive... View more about this event at BSidesSF 2025

Going to #BSidesSF this weekend? A #Meshtastic fan? Just saw that there is going to be a talk the security/encryption. sched.co/1x8SZ

Testing a solar Meshtastic node. Used safety zip ties and a safety cinder block for safety.
#meshtastic #lora #baymesh @bayme.sh

The @noisebridge.bsky.social balloon is away! Unfortunately the #meshtastic node got removed before launch. A learning experience. Next time will be better.

Dual Meshtastic Balloon Launches - Sat Mar 29 - 10am YouTube video by ObviateIO

The @noisebridge.bsky.social balloon is about to go up! We don't have video but we're still tracking it live on stream youtube.com/live/j7MsniL... Looks like the #Meshtastic node has bad location data, but will work for MediumSlow mesh repeating (we have other tracking options)

Forgot to post the recovery pictures!

Just about to land!

Over 30km. Pop expected anytime now! Radiation down to 1.8μSv