Solarpunk Automation

Solarpunk isn't a mood board, it's hands-on, hopeful resilience. This build day teaches you to stand up real, community-owned infrastructure that keeps working when the grid, the cloud, and the corporations don't. You'll turn an old phone into a proper Linux server with postmarketOS, put up a Meshtastic mesh that talks device-to-device over LoRa radio (no SIM, no ISP, no tower to shut off), and host a local info hub, offline maps, emergency dispatch, skill-sharing, and mutual-aid boards that work with the internet down. Build a solar-powered field node sized to run on sun and a battery, and leave with a resilience blueprint that scales from a garden to a neighborhood to a commune. Appropriate tech you own, in service of people and planet.

What you leave able to do

• classify your channels by what removes them
• generalise a node build into your community's system
• parameterise a service so it is reachable by name
• measure what a community loses when a channel goes down
• verify a community system survives a cut you did not choose
• design a community information system that survives losing the internet
• reconcile community ownership with somebody having to maintain it

How you show it. Infrastructure still running after the person who built it stopped, a written maintenance agreement, and one handover that actually happened.

It sits on 2 paths

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