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Communication
Messaging that survives without a cell tower, an ISP, or a cloud account. Local first, and relayed outward when a path exists.
Status: building in the open
Keep talking.
Keep organized.
Keep what you know.
kldcomms builds practical, off-grid node systems for communication, coordination, and knowledge retention, for the places and moments where normal infrastructure can't be trusted or simply doesn't exist.
The three jobs of a node
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Coordination
Shared state for a group: who is where, what's needed, what's been done. It stays consistent even when nodes drop in and out of contact.
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Knowledge retention
Manuals, maps, records, and hard-won notes, stored locally and replicated across nodes so nothing important lives in one place.
Flagship product · in development
MiCS: Mobile Interpersonal Communication System
A solar-powered node with hot-swappable batteries. It carries an offline knowledge base, your own knowledge archives, video and audio libraries, and PGP-encrypted messaging to custom handheld units. Several MiCS units link together over WireGuard to cover more ground.
- Offline Wikipedia via Kiwix
- Self-made knowledge archives
- Offline video and audio
- WireGuard-linked units
- PGP-encrypted mail(1)
- Solar with dual hot-swap batteries
Why this, why now
Infrastructure fails when it matters most.
Most of the tools people rely on to talk and organize assume a working grid, a reachable data center, and a provider that stays friendly. Storms, outages, remote terrain, and plain institutional failure break those assumptions, and they tend to do it exactly when communication matters most.
We think resilient communication should be a piece of equipment you can own, understand, and repair, rather than a subscription. That means modest hardware, open and boring protocols, low power draw, and documentation good enough that the next person can keep it running.