Overview
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.
Where This Class Leads
What you leave able to do
- repurpose a retired device into a working server
- operate a mesh network that carries messages without infrastructure
- configure a node to run on power you generate
- generalise a node build into your communitys system
How you show it. A deployed node serving a real group, with the failure each part absorbs named and the fallback stated for each. NOTE: the full DESIGN of a community information system would be order 12, and this class does not reach it — the chain computes to 10 and the capability validator says so. Workshop 5 is a showcase of what you built, not an architecture defended against alternatives. The order-11 rung (verifying the system survives a cut you did not choose) is unwritten.
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