PJON

One idea I've been toying wit (but don't have the skills to implement) is a standard for hardware that's a bit more verbose than things like i2c or serial. I'd like one connector I can plug into a piece of hardware (a sensor, a servo, a keypad, etc) and have it just work. The protocol would have to be a bit more complicated, maybe something like PJON^1, and you'd need to deliver power at a few different voltages. I've been calling it kitbash in my head, just throw a bunch of components together in various topologies and you're good to go. Considering you can get a very cheap microcontroller for something like 40 cents I can definitely see the appeal of adding a "kitbash port" to various pieces of hardware, even if it means adding a whole new microcontroller. 1: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

some older references or even implementations: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3Pf4TZ_vOE https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/src/strategies/An... http://mecrisp.sourceforge.net/ledcomm.htm https://hackaday.com/2019/12/22/optical-communication-using-...

> It needs to supports, out of the box, cloud connected or wifi enabled (wireless lan connected) devices. When the physical layer of devices in the home don’t offer Wireless connectivity, hardware communication modules needs to be adopted to bridge the existing connectivity. The protocol the OP wishes for exists already, it is called PJON: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

Until it ultimately relies on Amazon S3 and a commercial network provider all the effort to obtain "decentralization" looks wasted. I hope IPFS will someday run on top of protocols like PJON ( https://github.com/gioblu/PJON ). Decentralization and democratization of networking will happen from the lower end, when the network infrastructure will be ours, and we will not be forced to pay multiple corporations to temporarily store our data or get it from one end to the other. Then, IPFS may have sense. In my opinion we should: 1. Specify new data link and network standards for decentralized networking over private and decentralized networks 2. Build the networks 3. Start to think about high level stuff like IPFS

PJON supports mesh networking too, it is open-source and free to use, check it out: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON its address space may be beneficial (more flexible, lower overhead) for many use cases.

Should use PJON as a transport: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

The PJON protocol: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

You should try to run gemini over PJON https://github.com/gioblu/PJON that could really change the game.

I totally agree with the OP, check out the protocol I am working on since 2010: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON

PJON could help: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/

> We need a decentralized web. For us, one option would be IPFS, which is starting to catch on. For the binaries themselves there’s already the option of downloading through torrents. I agree with the OP Bitcoin should run over a network protocol like PJON https://github.com/gioblu/PJON and a private network infrastructure made by people. The point is, if you switch just the protocol, and keep the same infrastructure nothing will change.

Protocol specification: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/blob/13.0/src/strategies/Soft...

Really cool thanks for the link. I have experimented a lot with the OOK modulation and open-air laser wireless communication. It can be done just using visible light LEDs as detectors and small laser diodes, they just need to be of the same color. A free-space optical link can be built in minutes, see https://github.com/gioblu/PJON/tree/master/src/strategies/An...

It should use PJON for communication: https://github.com/gioblu/PJON