thicket
Handheld messaging that works where there is no network. No towers, no accounts, no company in the middle.
Your identity is a keypair the device makes itself, never a username issued to you. Messages are encrypted to the person you are writing to and routed by whatever radio is in earshot. It runs on Reticulum, a networking stack with no addresses to assign and no authority to ask. Most of its messaging clients assume a computer or a phone. Thicket is hardware built for it directly, carrying the whole stack on a low-power microcontroller rather than an application processor.
The first is a sealed handheld messenger. Others will follow it.
Status
Currently building the firmware: the whole stack running on the device itself, with no phone and no computer involved.
Nothing is shipping. No hardware is for sale. The firmware has not yet run on a board.
RNS·LXMF/ 915 MHz/ nRF52840/ SX1262
Following along
- github.com/thicketgarden Source, as it is written. Watch the org for activity.
- hypha@thicket.garden Questions, corrections, or if you are building something similar.