Currently most if not all wireless nodes on the reticulum network consist of two large components:
- some MCU dev board with a RF transceiver (for example an RNode running on a ESP32 board with a Lora module).
- a regular CPU running the network stack and all layers above (for example a raspberry PI).
microReticulum is aiming to run a network stack on the MCU itself so an additional CPU interfacing with it becomes optional.
This massively reduces size, weight, and power requirements of reticulum (transport-)nodes and thus gives new options of deployment.
In this workshop we will
- explain the current architecture of a reticulum network
- discuss the place microReticulum has in it
- install microReticulum on some boards to tinker with
- hopefully spark interest so developers start hacking the parts that are still missing