https://www.cbhd.org/dignitas-articles/ivan-illich-on-the-convivial-industrial-society
https://econation.one/blog/ivan-illich-and-conviviality/
https://www.resilience.org/stories/2022-08-31/a-neo-distributist-proposal/
Thesis: Romantic anti-capitalism and illich's notion of 'conviviality' share much; and these have 95% effective overlap with both solarpunk and energy-descent.
Also: defining oneself by the problem means one will never solve the problem. E.g. 'collapse'
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Shortwave radio; local AM and FM stations. Battery powered, with fresh batteries. Best reception / transmission at night in shortwave, so can't do direct DC solar.
using a hand drill to make a crane winch
replacing steel cable with transport rope
intro to protocol buffers with python here
t-beam communicator, no phone neeeded here
using nanopb and arduino here
tutorial on using nanpob here
more specific references to examples using nanopb on arduino here
specifically: https://blog.noser.com/arduino-iot-with-mqtt-and-nanopb/
rationale for not using meshtastic as a library here