Preparations for Meshtastic portable node

I will be prototyping my own portable Meshtastic node this week.

This is the parts list:

• Heltec Lora32 v3
• 18650 Battery holder
• JST 1.25 2 pin cable
• Buttons or rotary encoder (scavenged from old projects)
• GT-U7 GPS Module
• NPN 2N2222 Transistor
• Protoboard

Have everything I need... I used the amazing Fritzing open source software to design the hardware.

When I first opened Frtizing, many of the parts I was looking for were not there... Luckily the app has an amazing community that shares parts over their forum. I only had to search for the parts for:

• Heltec Lora32 v3: https://forum.fritzing.org/t/heltec-dev-boards/8112/36
• GT-U7 GPS Module: https://forum.fritzing.org/t/part-request-gt-u7-gps-module/22709/2
• 18650 Battery holder: https://forum.fritzing.org/t/18650-battery-holder-part-design/6523/20

Will use the guidance from this article:

Heltec® LoRa 32 Peripherals | Meshtastic

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After some fiddling with the app, this is what I ended up getting:

I am confident that will be able to set this up... wish me luck!