The beginning
Welcome to CircuitMess Chatter build guide!
By following this build guide, you'll learn how to assemble your encrypted wireless communicators. With Chatter, you'll learn how to create your private texting machine, how LoRa works, how to code and load custom apps onto your Chatter, and what privacy means in 2022.
Age group
Like it says on the box, Chatter is designed for anyone who's at least 11 years old.
You should approach some of the assembly steps carefully, so make sure to have an adult jump in if you need some help with soldering or tightening the bolts later in the process. It's okay to ask for help.
Don't worry, though! We'll go through the assembly step by step and provide some useful tips along the way. We'll give you a heads-up if there's something important to keep in mind while assembling.
Assembly time
It should take you approximately 4 hours to fully assemble your Chatters.
Of course, the assembly time depends on your previous knowledge and experience. If you don't have any experience yet, don't worry! It just might take you a little longer to get into the groove and overcome the challenges in the beginning.
Skills
You don't need to have any specific skills before getting your hands dirty with this DIY project.
The main objective here is to have fun and learn something new.
So hold on tight, read all the instructions, and get ready to have fun! This is a great opportunity and your first step in your big engineering career.
Learning with Chatter
As previously mentioned, Chatter will teach you a few useful things in the following few hours.
Here's what you'll learn:
- How to assemble your very own private texting machine
- What privacy means in 2022 and how you can digitally communicate without using the Internet
- How LoRa works
- How Chatter encrypts/decrypts messages and pairs with other Chatters
- How to code and load custom apps onto your Chatter