Donate To the ChatterBox Project

Thanks for considering a donation! I started the ChatterBox project in 2024, at great personal expense, over concern of how vulnerable our communication systems and privacy have become.

Thank you, any amount helps improve ChatterBox!

Donations are spent toward:

  • Making ChatterBox easier to use

  • Expanding hardware options

  • Testing and reporting antenna/amp options

  • Making helpful/educational content

Current Works in Progress

I’m always making minor (or major) improvements to the firmware, but I usually also have a few experiments going on, to help push progress and stimulate fresh ideas. In addition to my main goal of covering an entire county using as few devices as possible, here are a few I’ve got going on at the moment…

Amped Mobile Node, Completely Solar Powered

Amped Mobile Node, Fits in a Backpack

New Hardware Options (Heltec)

Project Accomplishments

  • ChatterBox is easy to use, with an easy learning curve

  • Has no dependence on grid (unless you charge your battery that way)

  • Has multiple levels of encryption

  • Digital signatures/delivery confirmation

  • Distributed mesh cache, where packets trickle toward their destination

  • Smart mesh algorithm for path finding

  • Location sharing

  • Proximity sensors and relay switches

Project Goals

  • Make ChatterBox easier to use

  • Create more helpful tech and non-tech content

  • More hardware options (Heltec, Rak, etc)

  • Improve mesh algo + stability

  • Test and recommend new antenna/amp options

  • Explore solar options

  • Span some impressive distances and report

  • Dynamically link clusters

Thank you, any amount helps improve ChatterBox!