Phone extension idea | Electrical Engineers Needed
Started by falafool ·
Heya,
here's my idea for building a reticulum phone extension to allow reticulum be used by consumers, maybe someone likes this and draw some inspiration from it:
- Lora antenna + Microcontroller
- Attachable to phones via Magsafe
- Communicates safely to phone via NFC
- Connection either via Lora or I2p/Tor from the phone as interfance
- Magsafe battery
selling point for people who don't know a reason why they would attach an antenna to their phone - Loss/Steal Prevention
By having an additional antenna on your body, when the signal cuts off/ the distance is too short
you get a loud beep
Optional:
- All storage for operation on board
Many of my friends reject additional programs bc of storage problems - Board powered by solar
I don't think solar's enough to power the phone but atleast the board doesn't take any battery life - ZFS storage attached, files shared via reticulum
I like to have all my file storage on ZFS, so if I were to attach an ZFS storage on my phone I
could even have the benefits of ZFS on my phone's files
checkout youtube meshtastic folks already have a decent design for magsafe devices. you could spin off from there and save time