I like alot of people have fell into the rabbit hole which is LoRa. No this is not a AA meeting, this a release announcement, for the last month or two i have designed and prototyped a fully modular and open sourced case,

i go more into detail on printables, but ill keep it short here

1.Public Domain license I did this because i love LoRa and the meshtastic community, its just so cool to be able to find other people in the wild whom are also turbo nerds like myself. However when i got into this hobby, it left a bitter taste in my mouth knowing that the most popular cases all have very restrictive licenses. Some of which not allowing Remixing, which i think hampers innovation and RepRap culutre. So i designed a 3d printable case for this!

2. Interoperability I see a lot of other cases have separate designs for the RAK, Heltecs and T breams. So when designing this case my main goal was to make it separate parts allowing different components to be swapped. I did this by making it 4 main body parts.

3.Objective

The main reason i made this was because i wanted a FULLY open alternative, it honestly kills me as a maker. When i find a really cool project or model but it doesnt allow remixing.

4. Story

about 6 months ago i bought myself a heltec v3 and became obsessed with meshtastic. This obsession like many others eventually made its way into my friend group, so i showed my friends.This awesome and potentially ground breaking technology, So my heltec then became 3 RAK’s. I 3d printed one of the most popular cases on printables for meshtastic (you know the one) and i liked it. but then i had all these IDEAS! what if i made a flap to cover the USB port? What if i made a molly webbing and belt clip??? but i then realized the license doesn’t allow remixing or modding the design, well all these crazy ideas plagued me, until i decided to do some modeling. It took over 30 revisions to make it the way i want, and its not 100% perfect but i feel it has good bones. So i printed 3 of them and a few weeks ago myself and friends assembled our radios.

To be genuine for a second, i really could not care less if somebody take this design and sells it, remixes it or makes something infinity better than my original. I JUST WANT A BETTER ALTERNATIVE!!

https://www.printables.com/model/1447093-the-wallop-meshtastic-rnode-case