Early Christmas 🎅
We just received our first batch of Kaonic 1S units

This tiny board enables unstoppable, uncensorable mesh networks everywhere.

Use coupon code ACTIVATION on checkout for a 10% discount available until 15 December 2024

Introducing the new, rugged, protective case design for Kaonic 1S modules!

This new protective case will allow you to carry the Kaonic 1S without any exposed electronics.

Simply power the Kaonic 1S via either of the two on-board USB-C ports (with a power bank, or mains socket) to boot it up.

The dedicated power button allows switching to different power modes.

The LEDs act as status indicators for the Kaonic 1S.

Stay tuned for our tests on the cases 😎

Keywords for 2025:
Build 🛠
Peace 🌲
Teamwork 💪

What are you planning to build with the Beechat Kaonic?

🐝

5 years of R&D. Live, low-latency (sub-100ms) TDD audio over a cryptographic mesh network. Built on a Rust port of Reticulum, our Kaonic system balances sensitivity, range, and data rate for real-world performance.
This isn’t just another radio module. It’s a fully decentralised, infrastructure-free, and encrypted communications platform. End-to-end cryptography, efficient packet routing, and optimized PHY-layer performance—all packed into a modular form factor.
Designed for tactical operations, emergency response, and autonomous systems. No towers. No satellites. No centralised control. Just pure, resilient, off-grid connectivity.
The future of cryptographic mesh networking is here.

Forgive my dumb question, but all of this patented, right? I don't want to see any bigtech snatch it!

Great question. Thankfully, under international patent law, once an invention or technique is publicly disclosed, it cannot be patented by anyone, including big tech or even the original publisher. That’s actually one of the reasons we’ve chosen to publish it: by putting it in the public domain, we ensure it stays free and accessible. We’re offering the technology as open source for the benefit of humanity.

🐝 Beechat's founder sits down with EmComm solutions to discuss secure mesh networking & emergency preparedness. Check out the full interview here:

https://youtu.be/OX9hP8WIC0Y?si=RNsqsZAqlh4w9MeN

We’ve ported Reticulum to Rust — and it’s now open-source.

https://lnkd.in/epHnEt_m

We’ve rebuilt the entire Reticulum networking stack in Rust — modular, embedded-ready, and optimised for low-latency, resource-constrained environments. The full codebase is now live on GitHub.
This is a clean, from-scratch implementation (not a wrapper, not a fork) designed to run on systems like our Kaonic radios.

Check out the GitHub here:
https://lnkd.in/epHnEt_m

Learn more about our Reticulum port here:
https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7341079661549944833/

We’ve ported Reticulum to Rust — and it’s now open-source.

Check out the GitHub here:
https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/Reticulum-rs
Learn more by reading the blog post on our Substack:
https://beechat.substack.com/p/weve-ported-reticulum-to-rust

We’ve rebuilt the entire Reticulum networking stack in Rust — modular, embedded-ready, and optimised for low-latency, resource-constrained environments. The full codebase is now live on GitHub.
This is a clean, from-scratch implementation (not a wrapper, not a fork) designed to run on systems like our Kaonic radios.

Check out our new video featuring the Kaonic 1S and some of the plug-ins that can expand its capabilities:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UG80yyuIvGY

Field-ready today, geared for what comes next.

The modularity of Kaonic enables expansions into AI/ML processing, advanced MIMO configurations, and wideband RF.

How are you getting ready for tomorrow's mission?

Explore the Kaonic platform:
https://beechat.network/shop/

After weeks of focused work, we now have MAVLink running over Reticulum in Rust.

What that means:
- A flight controller connected over serial can talk to QGroundControl
- The traffic is encrypted, meshed, and carried over whatever medium Reticulum supports
- The transport is flexible over WiFi, sub-GHz, and 2.4 GHz

With MAVLink secured and meshed across a trustless network stack, we believe it is a big step toward making drones truly mesh-native. The ground and flight sides run as simple binaries, configurable with TOML, and it is ready for others to build on.

If you are working on drones, autonomy, or resilient comms, we would love to connect.
Check out the GitHub and get involved:
https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/rns-mavlink-rs

We just dropped something new for the Reticulum community: rns-vpn-rs

This repo makes it possible to run a P2P VPN over a Reticulum mesh network.

In practice, that means:
- You can assign private IPs to Reticulum nodes.
- Any app that speaks plain old IP (UDP/TCP) can now run on top of Reticulum.
- Developers can connect services (chat, servers, APIs, telemetry feeds, etc.) across a Reticulum mesh without writing Reticulum-specific code.

It behaves like a normal VPN client. Peers show up as reachable IPs, and traffic is transparently routed over the mesh.

With this, projects can start routing any IP traffic over reticulum-rs, opening the door for all kinds of real-world use cases: off-grid comms, decentralized infrastructure, resilient field networking, and more.

Repo: https://github.com/BeechatNetworkSystemsLtd/rns-vpn-rs