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Femtofox - Getting Started

This guide assumes a certain level of familiarity with Meshtastic, and Meshtastic nodes.

The Femtofox is similar to, and can functionally replace, a Raspberry Pi Linux Native Meshtastic node. However, the Foxbuntu OS takes away most of the heavy lifting of a typical install, leaving you free to build your mesh application without the initial hurdles.

Hardware

To get started, you will need a Femtofox. You can either build or buy one.

1. Building a Femtofox

Femtofox Community Edition (CE) is provided as standard PCB Gerber files and suitable Bills of Materials (BOM) and Pick and Place files for the components. Download the Gerber files from here, selecting the set of files for your application:

  • Bare PCB - you have all of the necessary components on hand
  • SMD populated PCB - you have a Luckfox Pico Mini and suitable radio module on hand
  • Radio