While my website at https://meezenest.nl/mees will always be the main place for publishing my projects, this Nomadnet page could become the place for updates and sneak previews about my ongoing projects.

● 2026-07-21 - The Mees electronics public git server on Reticulum

Due to harassing "AI" training and search bots, it was no longer viable to host my public git server on the clearnet. But I'm now in the process of making all my repos available via Reticulum.

In the coming weeks, I will add my repos one at a time.

You can browse the repos via Nomadnet: Mees electronics git. The repos themselves can be found at aecbf54447791f0dcf8a8920d41bdba7.

● 2026-07-12 - Server upgrade

I upgraded my Reticulum server from a Raspberry Pi Zero 2W to a Dell Wyse 3040. Both machines are no power houses by any standard, but the new server is much more responsive.

With the new server, I offer a public backbone at 86.87.5.211:4242 and [2a02:a466:458a:1:bd82:821d:fe88:f0fa]:4242. The propagation node at 22c55f9002800074df29d51f43319a8a is also still available.

● 2026-05-18: Sent my first LXMF message over a 10 meter (28 MHz) HF link.

Admittedly, it was only over a distance of 1 meter, but it worked! See my website for more information: https://www.meezenest.nl/mees/projects/reticulum_over_hf/index.html

● Git repo offline

My git repo is currently under attack from AI training bots, clogging up my internet connection. Unfortunately I had to take the git server offline. Contact me if you want files from my repository.

● Building a Reticulum network

I want to learn how to build a Reticulum network with radio links over LoRa, wifi bridges and HF/VHF/UHF radio together with internet backup. See RNS info for more information. It is a work in progress.

Already implemented:

✓ A Reticulum transport node with public access over the internet (IPv4 and IPv6).

This is the main Reticulum node on my local network. All other local Reticulum nodes connect to this node.

✓ A Reticulum gateway with a 433 MHz rnode outputting 2 W.

This is the local LoRa access point. LoRa clients can access the public Reticulum network via this node.

✓ A Reticulum tansport node setup as a wifi hotspot for remote locations. Local wifi clients can use this node to access the Reticulum LoRa network.

Via the LoRa gateway described above, it also has access to the public Reticulum network.

✓ A smartphone connected to a Bluetooth rnode.

✓ Reticulum over a 5 GHz data link: as Reticulum happily uses excisting ip networks, it routes over my 5 GHz ip data link to my tiny house in the woods.

Currently in development:

✓ HF link with 300 bps FSK (direwolf KISS modem). If I can make it work, I will probably use MODEM73 instead.

✓ VHF/UHF link with MODEM73

Future plans:

✓ Rnode with Bluetooth enabled, permanently placed in my car with a proper antenna on the roof.

✓ Portable Reticulum rack with wifi, HF/VHF/UHF radio and LoRa, for in the back of my car. POTA version 2.0!

Note that most of the frequencies I use are allocated to amateur radio operators. As I am an amateur radio operator myself, I am allowed to use these frequencies. This gives me the opportunity to use high power transmitters and short wave radios for my experiments. My main goal is to use Reticulum for emergency communication. But my designs can be easily adapted for use on CB (27 MHz), LDP (433 MHz), PMR446 (446 MHz), LoRa (863 MHz). So everybody should be able to use Reticulum.

See my website for technical information about the build: https://www.meezenest.nl/mees/projects/reticulum_design_my_own_rnode/index.html

● A self driving tractor

Driving a tractor is fun, but wouldn't it be even more fun to let it drive itself. It than can plough, sow and harvest all on its own. Giving me more time to tinker with Reticulum. I want to use AgOpenGPS together with the motor of the electric power steering to accomplish this. It has been done before, so how hard could it be...?

Well, harder that you might think if you start with a badly designed interface. I had to redesign the interface from scratch. But to be honest: that was part of the fun! It is still far from working, but the steering wheel already turned by itself. So progress is being made.

2026-07-23: The steering colomn and the tractor are reunited. The electronics are ready to be build in. I hope I soon can let the tractor drive itselfr.

2026-05-04: Disaster struck. When building the prototype, something went wrong. I’m not entirely sure what happened, but the most expensive part of the interface (the GNSS receiver) gave up the ghost. In order to continue development, I will try to simulate the NMEA sentences comming out of the UART of the GNSS module with an Arduino.

2026-05-01: I've proven the concept. Now it is time to build a prototype for testing in the actual tractor.

See my website for more information: https://www.meezenest.nl/mees/projects/heagle_auto_steer/index.html