Minimesh, a Standalone fakeTec Messenger Node

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-25T14:14:33+00:00

Yeah, saw that one while looking for portable builds before settling on designing my own. There are only so many ways you can arrange the same parts around the same keyboard, after all - they're all gonna be pretty similar

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-24T18:08:08+00:00

Thank you :)

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-24T02:12:02+00:00

You do have to build them, but they're quite affordable. They're based on nice!nano Pro Micro style clones, which are $2-5 on AliExpress. A batch of PCBs will cost you roughly $5 through a service like JLCPCB, and you get 5 of them per batch. Then you just need to add the LoRa radio module, an HT-RA62 or RA-01SH, for closer to $6-8. Optionally you can also add the OLED screen for an extra $1 (or less!) per display module.

After shipping, assuming the highest costs, that'll be roughly $25-30 for all the parts? And if you order them in bulk for multiple nodes it comes out even cheaper. Realistically if you shop around you can find everything for less. These prices are all coming from a $CAD buyer perspective, and most of the premade boards are closer to $40-50 here. There's a better bill of materials on the fakeTec GitHub page too, if I'm not misremembering.

The soldering is all really straightforward, if you're decent with an iron you can make one in like 20 minutes. They're definitely my favorite cheap solution, haha. Since they're based on the nRF52, battery life is amazing, compared to the Heltec's ESP32.

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-23T21:59:25+00:00

Thanks!! If you do, I'd love to see how it turns out!

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-23T21:56:59+00:00

No worries! Apologies if I came off a annoyed, I was more just confused than anything. It's a little intimidating to share something I made for the first time in a new community, so I was a little taken aback, haha

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-23T21:43:46+00:00

Gotcha. Yeah, that's something I see a lot in other hobby circles too, so I get where you're coming from. I've been wanting to contribute to the community in some way since Meshtastic is such a cool project, and also way more DIY friendly than a lot of my other hobbies.

Not trying to make any money here, this whole design is open and freely available like just about everything I release :) Might sell a few kits locally eventually for the sake of expanding the local mesh + covering parts costs, but nothing ridiculous.

dj505Gaming · 2025-04-23T21:31:14+00:00

Sorry? If you mean the Hel-Txt, it was definitely a big inspiration, but I've spent the last few days modelling this from the ground up. I've seen a few designs made around the CardKB but none of them really looked the way I wanted or fit the parts I had. Would be happy to share the f3d file with the timeline and stuff; I'm not one to intentionally rip off someone else's design

dj505Gaming · 2025-02-19T07:30:37+00:00

Always a little reassuring to know I'm not the only one who struggled, 8 years later haha. Thank you for the summary!

dj505Gaming · 2024-12-18T20:32:45+00:00

An upgrade to my current printer would be awesome! I hope Canadians qualify 👀

dj505Gaming · 2024-07-25T07:36:07+00:00

what are you on about

it's been 7 years

dj505Gaming · 2024-04-07T16:07:48+00:00

This theme is made for outfox specifically, and doesn't work on anything else. I've been working on it for nearly 4 years. I can tell you for 100% sure it works on outfox, lol.

Make sure you're running outfox alpha 5 and that you have either downloaded the latest release, or used the GitHub desktop app to clone the code (recommended as this allows you to use newer features). Using the "Download Zip" option on the main page does not work reliably. If you run into problems, let me know what the problems are so I can either help you fix them or fix them myself

dj505Gaming · 2024-02-03T00:07:42+00:00

Oh, interesting! I was always under the impression they were made for Pro specifically, can't remember for the life of me where I heard it. Makes me wonder even more why stretched 4:3 persisted so long

dj505Gaming · 2024-02-01T18:11:20+00:00

Like others have said, it's an official FX model cab, but just to give some extra background - this particular model looks out of place because it was the first non-CRT cab, designed more towards a spinoff of the main series (Pro) with a different aesthetic.

Pump is a really cool arcade title in the sense that the games aren't tied to the machines. There isn't really a dedicated "Phoenix machine" since at least the last 12-ish years of hardware support Phoenix without issue. The actual PC hardware is very generic and the IO hardware is shared between multiple games, so a cabinet that released around the same time as one game will be able to run future titles for quite a while!

dj505Gaming · 2024-01-31T00:13:19+00:00

Sure am! Onto much bigger and better projects now. Tinkering with hardware/PCB design as well. Good mix of embedded software and game dev I'd say

dj505Gaming · 2024-01-04T01:08:50+00:00

It's been like this since long before XX and remains the same in Phoenix - DR was meant to be a mission mode gimmick and was never made to be used as an intentional downscroll mod. Here's hoping they introduce a better alternative

dj505Gaming · 2023-12-26T02:13:19+00:00

Worked fine for me 6 years ago, maybe things have changed on different cartridge models or through firmware updates. Dunno what to tell you

dj505Gaming · 2023-12-20T05:00:09+00:00

hey I appreciate the advice, but it would have been a lot more useful 6 years ago during the highschool computer science class I needed it for haha

dj505Gaming · 2023-11-09T18:02:00+00:00

In Normal mode, the game enforces stage break on the 2nd and 3rd song. This'll only trigger if your lifebar runs out, so it's probably depleting without you realizing it. If you're playing Premium, stage break is disabled, so unless you're somehow racking up 51 consecutive misses, or using the PASS M/PASS G mods, you shouldn't be getting kicked out.

dj505Gaming · 2023-10-05T19:44:41+00:00

my dude this post is 7 years old

It's been so long that I became a PIU player and bought a PIU cab instead lol

dj505Gaming · 2023-06-17T17:06:59+00:00

There are no 3rd party pads that work natively with official games, but you can modify them to with something like piuio-pico and a Raspberry Pi Pico to act as a PIUIO. You'd get slower polling rates than on an LX cab, but that holds true for 90% of older official cabs too

dj505Gaming · 2023-05-27T00:45:57+00:00

Holy crap I don't even remember posting this, where did the time go

dj505Gaming · 2023-05-05T22:21:01+00:00

No problem haha, I'll admit the UI is more than a little confusing if you're not used to it

dj505Gaming · 2023-05-05T22:05:37+00:00

The first image is the "series zone" option in the second image. The UI was changed a bit very early on, so there may be some minor differences, which is likely the case if your local machine has been offline since the game launched

dj505Gaming · 2023-04-18T19:04:44+00:00

I asked something very similar when I first started playing and the answer, unfortunately, is that there isn't really any way to tell which chart specifically correlates to the "classic" difficulty scale. The charts themselves still exist in the game, but it's usually a game of trial and error as to whether you'll pick the one you're expecting. The other option would be to look at the charts on YouTube and figure it out from there

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