Edge Collective

31. Conviviality and the Romantic; Preparation

Alternatives to an 'energy descent' infrastructure; what does preparedness look like?

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.

Sat May 25 09:42:49 PM EDT 2024

worm drive hand winch

using a hand drill to make a crane winch

using an ezyloader

replacing steel cable with transport rope

creating a 3d model for kicad

meshtastic arduino

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