https://www.aliexpress.com/item/32936334224.html

>>103229051
MIG/TIG welder?
thats always useful. some woodworking tools
maybe a chemistry set
id say youre blackpilling but yeah, if i were to prep, on a 200usd budget, thats what i would look at

>>103229051
>>103229111
(cont.)
you can also make a furnace on the cheap
some people use coal for it, which you can make from regular wood
you can use molds to create replacement parts for your machinery and that of your community
you could fire clay to make pottery
you can make your own fire bricks out of perlite and cement
i heard, but i never tried
if you can, a furnace should come cheap
this lad made one from sticks and mud
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZGAYzItazw

>>103229051
Battery packs, you'll probably want to keep hopelessly checking your phone for a signal. It's a comfort thing.

>>103229051
What's the reason for going electric in such a scenario?

>>103229643
ukraine still has electricity even if their communications go down

>>103229051
Pick up a gardening book and learn how to purify morphine from opium

>>103229051
meshtastic and their ilk for comms

The date where the Third World War begins on Earth is: October 27th, 2027

Don't ask how I know this. I'm doing my part to shift your future timeline by providing this date. Best case scenario you don't need equipment or weapons. USIPS won't let you have a sip... El Psy Kongroo

>>103229051
Get one of those big ass sleeping bags that have a very low comfort temperature, like -15C, so that your ass doesn't freeze in the winter if something weird happens.

A set of power tools, drill bits, overall stuff needed in construction, bricklaying and other stuff if you want to help rebuild.

Not sure what do you need the Raspberry Pi for, but if you want a computer, a laptop is a much better choice, especially if you can find one with hot swappable batteries. And get a large power bank, or multiple powerbanks of course.

Maybe a Baofeng short wave radio, but I'm not sure it's going to be useful.

Also, the most useful thing that you can have in a situation like that is an off-road car, if the army won't take it away from you as soon as the war starts of course.

Even better advice, follow Jesus Christ. No amount of tech will save us, but God saves.

A handful of old wifi routers flashed with DD-WRT or OpenWRT to arrange a local mesh network. Setup an Asterisk server, you don't really need much of a machine to serve local needs. Download VOIP clients for Android, iOS so that the local community can use their cellphones to call one another.

When I go to a rummage or yard sale I can pick up wifi routers for $5 and I've had a VOIP conference call with 5 people from around the world on a PIII machine that I literally pulled out of the trash.

There is the whole power issue that I leave as an exercise.

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I'd assume some group like Engineers Without Borders would have a list of things you'd need to bootstrap your community to modernity.