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There's an Italian company called ForiniCom that built its own devices; they are around 40-50$ to produce, but they truly provide a Mesh network.

Unfortunately it's only in Italian: http://com-com.it/

I know they are managing more than 4,000 nodes now, and it works great.

I also know that offering a service like this is hard. A kickstarter campaign sometimes makes things look too easy.

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Simone you can't compare the two things: they are an ISP and according to their tech pages it looks like they're using linux-powered devices in order to create an Hiperlan mesh network for internet access. It's like comparing.. a Raspberry PI with Telecom Italia/T-Mobile/Verizon deploying their own home routers for Internet access... You're also saying "offering a service is hard", Flutter is not offering a mesh service, they're trying to provide an Arduino compatible electronic board with long range wireless communication and with mesh and crypto features.

Don't worry, I know this isn't easy, but I don't like easy things, they're boring. My last project involved hand-winding motor coils for a linear motor I built from scratch, along with a 24v 10A per channel driver board & ARM CPU mainboard I designed and built. It was a pretty neat system, but robots are complicated, so I'm going to sell circuit boards for a while and dive into software development some more.