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@colonelpanichacks.bsky.social

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22.09.2025 23:28 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

thank you for the repost! really love these projects.

22.09.2025 23:25 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Today oui-spy fully functional sewable patches will arrive! These are an art piece that you can wear or display. Clear flexi pcb with sew holes (2 can be routed to a charging controller via conductive thread) and a xiao esp32 s3 and buzzer for detection.
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17.09.2025 11:24 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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16.09.2025 18:09 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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I am designing counter surveillance and personal privacy tech. take a peek if you are interested in that sort of thing.

29.08.2025 22:22 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Mesh-Mapper - Drone Remote ID mapping and mesh alerts Dual-core ESP32 drone Remote ID detector: WiFi/BT scanning, real-time web maps, Meshtastic alerts, FAA lookup. Custom boards on Tindie! By Colonel Panic.

i made a thing! www.hackster.io/colonelpanic...

02.06.2025 10:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two PCBs on a wooden surface; they are arranged to show the top and the bottom. There is a QR code to a GitHub project

Two PCBs on a wooden surface; they are arranged to show the top and the bottom. There is a QR code to a GitHub project

I absolutely love it when my students send me one of their PCBs!

Recently I had a chance to teach @colonelpanichacks.bsky.social how to use @kicad.org and he sent me his first PCB:

#MakeAllTheThings

22.03.2025 22:05 — 👍 35    🔁 2    💬 3    📌 0
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Mesh Detect by Colonel Panic's Hack Shack on Tindie This board links a SeedStudio Xiao Esp32-C3 to a Heltec Lora V3 via uart serial for ble or WiFi device detection over lora mesh.

mesh detect v1.5 boards have dropped. cam detection, drone remote id detection over meshtastic. fun times!
www.tindie.com/products/col...

13.03.2025 23:57 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Mesh Detect This device allows users to scan for drones, cameras, and other non-surveillance devices while sending alerts to your channel by Meshtastic. By Colonel Panic.

I made another thing!
www.hackster.io/colonelpanic...

02.03.2025 14:16 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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This is my new project Mesh-Detect. Oui device detection and messaging/alerts over meshtastic. Uses Xiao esp32 for scanning and serial communication and a Heltec lora v3 for Meshtastic comms. First boards will be on Tindie shortly.

20.02.2025 13:38 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Solar local llm over meshtastic. you can query it via a dm from any device or in its own channel.

16.02.2025 19:02 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

as of now it can detect specific ouis of ble devices and send over meshtastic. @lukeswitzer.bsky.social has made a drone detection firmware as well. essentially esp32 to mesh over serial tx rx

13.02.2025 02:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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llm over meshtastic.

08.02.2025 15:50 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Detection over @meshtastic.org

@colonelpanichacks.bsky.social with the hardware inspiration.

Example with a WiFi drone:

02.02.2025 18:42 — 👍 5    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

aww thank you so much!

29.01.2025 16:34 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@jilles.com I remember meeting with you when this project was just getting started. Thank you again for your help!

29.01.2025 11:42 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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Dynamic Vision Assist The Dynamic Vision Assist is a wearable that is designed to allow a user with low to no vision navigate trails, parks, and hiking paths. By Colonel Panic.

I made a thing!
www.hackster.io/colonelpanic...

29.01.2025 11:41 — 👍 9    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 2
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Hi all! im new here.

29.01.2025 11:36 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0