Osvaldo is aimed to make ethreal messages physical, from the meshiverse:
It all stems from a thought I had a year ago: how to save and somehow record these ephemeral-ethereal messages in our absence?
Attach a printer to a meshtastic radio and see the messages coming one after another, a real physical representation of the conversations.
This project was an excuse to see how far a meshtastic radio could be integrated into a more distributed and complex system.
A number of things can be built from here, including – in addition to the printer from which we start – a small bot capable of field operations, or even a very simple BBS (Bulletin board system) based on microntrollers.
The idea of the printer is itself an hommage to the Little Printer from Berg
As for the Meshbot, this project updates several ideas and limits and scenarios in a new way. We are not making “printer of the internet”, you could easily do that in many other ways- Osvaldo is not even connected to the internet (and for this reason, I guess it doesn’t event know the time and date). Osvaldo is connected to the Mesh.
He receives messages and prints them. I could possibly add many features to this, which is an ongoing project. One is the Battery, maybe even solar powered. Another is exposing a Captive Portal that allows you to control Osvaldo via the phone (wifi): eyes (colours), texts, QR code of the Meshtastic Channel Osvaldo is listening to.
The future holds many challenges in front of us, lets see.
But What is Osvaldo doing right now?
- Osvaldo is a node in the Mesh
- Prints the received messages and make some funny LED patterns
Check the project on Github.