# You’ve Never Seen Tech Like This

## Метаданные

- **Канал:** Data Slayer
- **YouTube:** https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWszlmgOdYc

## Содержание

### [0:00](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nWszlmgOdYc) Segment 1 (00:00 - 05:00)

Boom. Inside this box is a new piece of technology that could completely redefine how the world connects. Bold claims, I know, but I'll put my name on it. I believe tech like this represents the future of wireless communication. Not to mention, it might be one of the most impressive builds I've ever shown on this channel. This is definitely something you've never seen before. I've waited over a year to get my hands on it. And no, you don't need 20 grand to own one of these, which kind of confirms what we've suspected all along about the military industrial complex. But let's stay on topic because this video isn't really about this device or even technology. It's actually about something much bigger. Freedom. The freedom to communicate and connect without being at the mercy of centralized providers that want to charge us a monthly fee for the rest of our lives. That's what zero trust mesh networks promise. Systems that are cryptographically sound, open, and unstoppable. They don't rely on the centralized powers that be. Instead, only math. And we're already seeing the world move in that direction. Back in August, Jack Dorsey dropped a weekend project that turned an iPhone's Bluetooth chip into a peer-to-peer messenger. And I immediately recognized what that could mean. And so, I made a video about it. Then just a few weeks ago during Nepal's civil unrest, that app was used to organize when the internet went dark. And you may have picked up on it, but right now a lot of the world seems to be heading in a certain direction. Right now, it's estimated that the UK now has one CCTV camera for every 12 people. People are literally being imprisoned for tweets. The EU and Australia are rolling out digital ID systems that tie into nearly every part of daily life and you won't be able to opt out. It's being built as required infrastructure. Meanwhile, some of us here in the States, well, we've read 1984 and we don't need a live action remake. So if that kind of sovereignty is something that you care about, then decentralized blockchains, remote solar energy, 3D printing, and now mesh networking are technology concepts that can help us take the power from the few and put it into the hands of the many. And if you've been watching this channel for a while, you already know I'm all for that. All right, stepping off my soap box now. Today, I'm putting this device through its paces, showing you exactly how it works, how you could set one up yourself, and what the net new utility it can give us actually is. Is this the future of communication, or am I just out here playing GI Joe? Only one way to find out. Okay, so what even is this thing? It's called a man phonetically looks like mainet, which is short for mobile ad hoc network. And basically each device is a node in a mesh network and provides coverage and self-healing without the use of cell towers or centralized servers. And historically it's been how the military stays connected in highly dynamic ops. But now it's in my hands. Okay, so first up we have an Ethernet cable. This is kind of a military spec. call it M12 with four pins on one side and a threaded screw so your connection doesn't get lost. We have a couple of antennas here. It looks like these are going to be the um sub gigahertz antennas. And you can even see the kind of care and attention that these have been shrink wrapped at the um connectors uh which just gives it a little bit more durability and weather resistance. And we're going to have our battery right here, which is a L3 Harris 12412400. We'll get to that in a little bit, but let's get to our actual device. I think that's everything. Okay. Wow. This thing has just a gorgeous sheen on it and just incredible design here. Um, yeah. I don't know. This thing, this thing has straight up sex appeal. All right, so let's get into uh the inner workings of this guy. So, typically you want to connect any sort of sub gigahertz antennas before you turn these on because that radiation will um be directed back at the uh board components and can damage them unless it has a proper outlet. So, I'm just going to throw these on for the sake of uh testing here and then I'll show you real quick how you actually turn this thing on and then we'll get into all the details. So, let's grab this battery here. Now, um the L3 Harris battery is kind of off the shelf. This is uh military grade. Um I believe they are used by the

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military. Um it uses this sort of flywheel connector. This is 7,000 milliampers or 7 thou or 7. 0 0 amp hours. Um has pogo pin connector actually on this side has a flywheel uh twist connector and then it has um pogo uh not pogos but just um uh plates here for a docking station. And what's pretty cool about this device is to turn it on, you come in perpendicular or at a right angle and then you pull it in parallel and you don't get any sort of indicator. Nothing beeps, no lights turn on, nothing spectacular, nothing to listen to. It's all solid state components, completely silent, but it's on. Which reminds me of this device here, which I went over about a year ago. People were kind of confounded by this. They were like, "Well, you know, you plug it in, you turn it on, but like what does it actually do? It doesn't have any LEDs. screen. How do you know what's going on? " Well, what these both do is they're spinning up these sort of ephemeral wireless networks. And all you need to have are these devices within the vicinity of an enduser device such as, you know, an Android phone or an iPhone or a computer, Linux, any sort of computer really. And then this is where you do all the heavy lifting. This just supports the infrastructure and the network. So you just need this in your on your campsite, in your backpack, in your Humvey, whatever it is. And then you're using internet in the typical way that you would uh through IP networking and Wi-Fi 2. 4 and a little bit of Bluetooth for something like this and even Bluetooth for this if you're talking Laura and Mishtastic and all that. But you're doing um all your connection through your end user device like your Android device to do messaging uh voice uh video whatever it is. This just supports the network, right? It's got the long range sub gigahertz antennas. It has GPS. It has 2. 4 MIMO um local connection. And it has uh OpenWRT routing software to make that all work and to support several clients and to support things like mesh networking and what have you. Um all right, so let's get into the specifics of this thing. This particular unit was 3D printed privately using a PA6 CF20 material that combines nylon with carbon fiber to create a durable temperatures resistant material which should be pretty hardened. Now, this exact skew isn't something you can just grab off the shelf. Trey, the guy behind Mororrow's X, does sell IP mesh radios and Laura devices on his site, but these are prototype units built to order. If they catch your eye, I definitely reach out. He's one of the most knowledgeable builders in the space and hands down the best Fusion 360 designer I've seen when it comes to that offgrid miltech aesthetic. Trey also mentioned that he's testing some even newer materials that repel moisture and would give even more protection against the elements and a proper IP rating. We've got a heat sink plate on the front that when removed exposes some of the internals, a series of M3 screws varying in size. On the top here, we have a series of ports. The two front-facing SMA connectors are 2. 4 4 GHz radio antennas which support the local connection to any EUDs and provide MIMO data transmissions. The rear antennas are both sub gigahertz but each runs a different protocol in parallel. And in my opinion, any great piece of engineering needs that kind of built-in redundancy. One connects to the Wi-Fi Halo chip and the other to a rack 4630 which has our Laura radio which will be used to support things like Meshtastic and Mesh Core. You'll also notice it has a ceramic active GPS antenna going into the rack board. But beneath the MCU is an off-the-shelf Halo router board with an alpha card running a Morse micro chip. The same chip we've used on the Haven build, just a different router board here. And the individual who reached out to me from the military mentioned that Alpha was a preferred supplier for these kinds of chips. So, I'm hopeful they'll be able to perform in the field. Finally, we've got an upgraded M12 4 pin connector head for Ethernet, which feels like it belongs on a military satellite terminal. I'll probably be doing more with these kinds of milspec connectors in the future. And because this thing's a router at its core, direct network connections are crucial during the build and setup phases, and this connector makes that possible. Now, this unit came with some solid stock antennas, but I've already started mixing and matching with other options, and antenna form factors and dBm signal ratings are a whole rabbit hole of their own, and that's something I'll be diving into in a future video. Okay, now let's get down to power, which is super unique. This connector here is

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called a flywheel or twist locked pogo pin connector, which brings us to the battery itself. This is an L3 Harris 120412400. Now, this thing is full milspec, and it's actually kind of fun to read the certifications it has. It's rated for crazy things like thermal shock, solar radiation, chemical resistance, and rapid decompression at altitude, which tracks considering this thing isn't intended to sit around a boardroom. And because this thing is milspec, it also carries that price tag. Each one of these goes for about $320. So, you might be wondering, where's the button on this thing? Well, this thing has no buttons, and to a lay person, you definitely wouldn't have any idea how to operate it, which is why it feels so futuristic. And to turn it on, we just power it by twisting the battery onto the device. You'll hear no boot sounds, see no LEDs. It's 100% silent with its fully solidstate architecture. So, how do you use it then? Well, you don't click anything and you definitely don't talk to it. This is an IP mesh radio. What happens now is we have a local Wi-Fi network available to any of our enduser devices. As long as this thing is within a couple hundred feet of us, we'll connect over traditional 2. 4 GHz to our enduser devices running Android, iPhones, or whatever kit you might have. But that just sounds like Wi-Fi with a battery. So, what makes this different? Well, it actually has multiple radios, each with special properties and roles. We've got Bluetooth low energy, which is ultra low power at about 10 mill around 125 kilobits per second and works best within 10 meters. This is good for things like managing your Laura board via Meshtastic or Meshcore. Then we've got traditional Wi-Fi. 2. 4 GHz, roughly 100 megabits per second, draws about 500 m and stays solid within 100 m. This will be our fast link for connecting any enduser devices within the local vicinity of our manet. Laura handles the long haul about 5 kilobits per second. Think GPS coordinates and text messages. Draws under 100 m. And people say it can stretch several kilometers with line of sight. But I actually believe that the only thing stopping Laura signals is the curvature of the Earth. I mean, the Earth may be flat, but Laura doesn't think so. And actually last weekend I put a Laura node on a kite and not even at full altitude I picked up a node 15 miles away and I have a hunch you could pull a signal from a satellite if unobstructed but more to come on that. And finally Wi-Fi Halo which is what I'm most excited about. It hits around 10 megabits per second, draws roughly 200 m and is reliable for 1 km or more. This is real internet at distance. Now, the physics behind Laura and Halo are pretty similar, but they function very differently, and having both long range radio set decks running in parallel gives solid redundancy if one network fails. But something I'm really excited about and just started digging into is an open- source project called Reticulum. It's a hardware agnostic communications stack that provides end-to-end encryption and mesh networking over pretty much anything that can push ones and zeros. In short, it doesn't care what hardware you're using. Laura, Wi-Fi, Ethernet, serial. It just moves data securely across all of them. Some people are even using it as a control channel for publishing content over IPFS. It's a deep rabbit hole, but I've got a full video coming soon on how Reticulum could become the backbone for off-grid communication. And that's where this starts to get really interesting because once you've got radios like this talking over long distances, you start realizing just how many real world problems this kind of mesh can solve. On a farm, this same mesh could link autonomous tractors, drones, and sensors across hundreds of acres, all talking over radios instead of a closed corporate network. Out in the wild, hikers, and hunters could use it to stay connected several miles without cell service. Airscoffters could run live maps and teamcoms across a field. Water sports crews could track boats and boards along a shoreline. And off-grid coordination groups from community responders to explorers could share position data, chat, and files without ever touching the internet. Before we get too deep into testing, let's zoom out because this isn't the first time someone's tried to decentralize connectivity. Helium promised a people's network, a decentralized wireless revolution powered by the community. Thousands bought in, deployed hotspots, filled maps with coverage, but the tech stack is still a black box at the mercy of middlemen, and the payouts are just weak. Meanwhile, the military's been doing mesh for decades. Companies like Silvis, which Motorola just bought back in May for over 4 billion, and

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Persistent with their MPU 5 radios, have been linking entire battlefields for years. But most of that gear requires special licensing. And as much as I like filling out forms and chatting with sales reps just to get a price for a product, that lack of transparency usually means it's not cheap. Then there's consumer routers from companies like Ubiquiti, which I personally use in my home, but the ecosystem is proprietary. And the moment you mod that firmware, you're voiding the warranties. And now we're seeing big players circling. Jack Dorsey with Bit Chat. Coinbase literally filed to trademark the word Mesh. And Morse Micro, the company behind the Halo chip in most of these builds, just a few weeks ago, raised $88 million to help them scale. So, yeah, I may sound like a hype man sometimes, but there's clearly something real happening here. Everyone's waking up to what we've known for years. Mesh isn't niche. It's the future of connectivity. Now, this device sits right in the middle. Open, portable, inexpensive. And I'm not saying I'd want our comrades in contested spaces running one of these, but for those of us not going headto-head with a nation state, this Civy version is the best game in town. Because most military radios require special licensing and certified infrastructure, this device can be owned and operated by anyone here in the United States. No, it won't give you turnkey jamming defense, type 1 government crypto, or a FIP certification. It won't magically provide enterprise WAN acceleration or blackmagic tricks like TCP spoofing. What you do get is the toolbox to build around those gaps. Resilient radios, MIMO, multiband protocol, WPA3, SAE encrypted comms on a fully open tech stack that you actually own end to end. And if you're willing to roll up your sleeves, there's nothing stopping you from going further than me and doing something completely new with this tech. And for anyone overseas, the UK, EU, Canada, or Australia, I reached out to Morse Micro about regional frequency support. They told me their upcoming MM8108 chip includes a built-in 26dBN power amp. It basically gives us a single piece of hardware that's flexible enough for global use. The chip's not out yet, but it's coming soon. So, if you are outside the US, just hang tight. This tech is what happens when the power of a $20,000 military radio finally lands in your backpack. And that's what this channel is really about. Bringing a parallel tech stack online, open-source, affordable, and capable. No middlemen, no centralization, and no monthly subscriptions. Just tech you can repair, upgrade, and keep out of the landfill. So, that's the landscape. Let's take it outside and see what it can really do. So, for this example, you need two Halo nodes. So, for my roaming client, I'll use the Mororrow X radio, but for my base station node, I'll use the Haven build that I've talked about before. And for anyone interested in building one of these on the cheap, the Open Manet project on GitHub is probably the best way to go. I'll leave my guide for the Haven build in the description below. And open Manonnaise is an open-source project based on Morse Micro and OpenWRT that uses very inexpensive chips like this Halo card from Seed Studio and layers in 802. 11S mesh and an increased transmit power to create a modular open-source Manet. And open Manonnaise also has a case if you do end up building one of these. And there's a ton of activity around this idea right now. So, I'm hopeful we'll get more options when it comes to protecting our gear. Now, where the Mororrow's X mesh node deviates from the Haven is in a few places. First off, it's hardened like no other, and that goes without saying, but it also has a rack Laura board with a GPS antenna in there, which brings us Meshtastic and Mesh Core support. It also has proper SMA antennas for 2. 4 MIMO connections and a milspec Ethernet jack. But Haven has some advantages, too. I've got to say that the Raspberry Pi builds seem to work better than at least this router board just in terms of configuring OpenWRT. It's probably because it's a beefier SBC than this board. On the back of Open Manet, Haven also gets the increased transmit power bumped up to 27 dBm and 802. 11S mesh with multiccasting and Batman support. But honestly, both are solid and will likely get even better pretty quickly in future iterations. Okay, so this first test is a fun one. We're going to do voice over IP using Wi-Fi Direct. Okay, so we're running a speed test. I'm connected, this guy's connected from on

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Wi-Fi 2. 4 to the Moro X uh IP Mesh radio. And um that's all connected to my Ubiquiti router. And you can see we get seven up, seven down, which makes sense because we're on the 4 MHz channel. All right, I just want to give you guys a quick look at what I have going on with my actual like Ubiquiti home network router. Basically, um, this guy here, the Haven Raspberry Pi 4 with the Seed Studio hat is directly wired into my Ubiquiti router through Ethernet. Um, and it's acting as an access point with a 9 sub gigahertz antenna. So, this just brings Halo to my router here. So, now we could bring other Halo clients on like the um the Halo IP Mesh radios that I'm about to bring online and those will be able to connect to my local network. They should have internet. It's all bridged. It's all routed and all everything's IP available. So, if you ever get stuck with these things, you can always plug it directly into your router and then go to your router admin page and it will always hand out an IP to this and you can log in that way. All right. So, we have our little um test rig here. So, this is the base node. It's running the gooseeneck. Seems to have a pretty good signal right now. So, I'm just going to let sleeping dogs lie. And we're going to go uh just through the hallway, go through some concrete, and see how this signal holds. Like right here, again, we're in the same room. So, we're on the 4 MHz channel. So, the theoretical limit there is around 7 megabits per second. So you can see we're getting full signal pretty much. Um just double check it. Seven down, seven up. But now we're going to see what happens when we go through some walls here. So now you can see the signal is stretching. And we're going to go through some concrete and metal, which always uh hampers signal because metal is essentially a Faraday cage. So, we're going to go up. So, it's funny. We're actually one floor above my apartment now. And you can see the signal is coming back quite good. Um, so that's funny. All right. Um, so it's going through at least one floor. Still getting good signal for some reason. Doesn't like the stairwell. Let's see. Keep pushing it here. See, now we're two floors above my unit. Still getting a signal, though. Okay, so we've done this test before. Basically, what we got going on is we are connected to the Manet through a local 2. 4 network code named Spitfire. That is this guy. And if we want to surf the internet or run a speed test, we're getting a connection. But what's interesting is that internet is coming from way way way up there because that's where my other Manet is with an uplink. And you can see again we're at the um 4 MHz uh channel width. So we're not going to get the 15 megabits per second, but we should get uh a max of like 7 megabits per second. You can see right now the signal is holding. So, we're going to keep going further and see uh how far we can get a signal with. So, this connection right here is coming from way way up there. You can see we're just getting tons of distance here. And I'm actually going to go behind this building here, which is uh basically going to obscure our line of sight, but we should still be able to get a connection. So, let's do that right — now. Okay, guys. We're like really far away from my apartment right now. We have uh at least one building directly obscuring our line of sight.

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And let's see uh what we can get for a speed test. Yeah, we still have a connection. It's crazy. You know, the data throughput's kind of low, but the fact that it's still getting a signal is just wild. Can you see me? — Yes. — Okay. So, this right here, this connection, we're doing FaceTime here, is using Wi-Fi Direct because my phone has cellular turned off. And you can see Bluetooth's turned off. The only thing that's turned on is Wi-Fi and it's running Spitfire. So you can see um we're connected over um the uh Manet radio and doing um uh video voice or video over IP um using Wi-Fi direct which is pretty cool. Okay, so I want to show you what I have set up here for a rig and hopefully it makes sense in your mind. So, um, we have our Starlink. So, this is our uplink. Uh, this is a full dishy and it has the Starlink router with it. Um, so that's giving 2. 4 local Wi-Fi. And then we have the Haven. We have the Haven Manet in there with the sub gigahertz antenna. So, this is a Halo enabled uh Wi-Fi rig. Now, this would be our like base node, our base um configuration, mission control, what have you. Um and then for the remote setup, we have this guy. This guy has 2. 4 and it also has Halo and Laura, but we're just going to use Halo right now. And I'm connecting to that guy with uh this right here. Um and you can see this has internet if I do a speed test. So, not crazy internet. I think we're on a 4 MHz channel. I'm not sure exactly, but um it has internet has slow internet over Wi-Fi over um sorry over uh yeah, Wi-Fi Halo. Um so now we're going to see how far we can go and uh still get a signal and just some tricks of the trade here. So like this computer's on the um Starlink network and we can log into the Halo interface here. So we can get some details and do management uh on the go. We can see we have that one connected device which is um the IP mesh radio signal's decent. Um so that's how you can manage that. Now, if you want to get fancy for the other node, um, for the, um, IP mesh radio node, uh, the Mororrow X1, you can manage that if you make the, um, if you make the Lucy portal available over Wi-Fi, which I did. So, I can actually manage that all here. Um, and let me just show you the network stuff, right? So, this is connected to Spitfire. DS_SL is data slayer Starlink and then Spitfire is the Moro X 2. 4 Wi-Fi and these two are bridged over Halo. That's the whole idea of this thing. Um so that is the gist of our setup here. So we can um confirm what our exact Halo configuration is. So we're on the 4 MHz channel which doesn't have as much bandwidth but it has better range. And we're operating at 926. I set it to 926 because I wanted to be a bit u further away from Laura just to avoid potential interference. And Laura is like high 800s to low 900. So 926 is above what Laura would be doing. So that was the idea there. Um and then you can see we have our um SSID and all that stuff. So um okay. So anyways, that's the configuration for Halo. Now let's go and test it. All right. So now we're getting a much better connection right here. But again, we're not very far from our base node. So, we're going to see how far we can take it. So, very unironically ended up at a military museum. Was not planned, but here we are. Sporting 2025 military tech, 1940 military tech. All right, we got our Sherman over there. Um, still pulling a connection. And our base node is I don't know if you can see it down there. Um, yeah, it's right over there. Can you wave? Okay. So, now we're talking over a different app. This is WhatsApp uh on my Android phone. My Android phone has no cellular, no SIM card. It only has a local Wi-Fi connection to Spitfire, which is my man right here.

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And we are indeed chatting over um WhatsApp. No special settings needed. You can hear me, babe. Right. — Yes. — A little bit of latency. I don't know if that's her the connection, but um yeah. So, we are able to chat a little grainy, but um I mean this is pretty high red uh you know high data rate activity and we're doing it over long range. We're doing it without cell towers, centralized servers. We're doing it just using these little sub gigahertz antennas right here and um it gets you pretty far. So, that's cool. — Connect. — Okay, so now we're going to set up Meshtastic and uh send a couple messages. This should be pretty easy, but I just want to prove out that this has a Laura radio inside it as well. So, basically what I want to prove out right now is that we can do Meshtastic and um Halo uh simultaneously. Um so, I'm actually connected to Amelia over WhatsApp. So, that's Halo. And then we're going to exchange some messages over Meshtastic um at the same time. I just want to prove that there's no interference between uh those two communication stacks. — Ameilia, I'm going to send some messages. — Okay, — you're done. — Hey Ed. So, sending Laura messages all while being connected over uh WhatsApp um FaceTime or yeah, WhatsApp um video uh at the same time. So, just proving that out. But all of this new functionality means nothing if the hardware can't take a hit. In my first Manet video, the open Manet Haven build, a lot of you love the tech. But you also pointed out the obvious. It looked fragile. Bare metal, no protection, just utility. This time that changes. The Mororrow X is sealed, hardened, and built like a field device should be. It's still not indestructible. Nothing in this space is. Well, except maybe a Nokia. but it's a big step towards something you can actually trust in the field. So, let's find out if it can actually handle what it's built for. Now, earlier I said this might be the coolest piece of tech I've ever covered on this channel. And that's exactly why what I'm about to do feels so wrong. But you guys asked for it, so here it goes. And we're still connected.

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