
Konnect is an off-grid, peer-to-peer emergency messenger engineered for decentralized communication over local Wi-Fi networks using raw UDP sockets. Lacking central servers, its hand-written routing logic mimics chemical "chain reactions," instantly multiplying and propagating data packets across nearby device nodes. To maintain architectural purity, the entire core network engine, and wire protocol validation were written completely by hand. Artificial intelligence was utilized strictly as an execution engine to render the minimalist, dark-monochrome Kivy graphical user interface
What tools did you use to create your project?
How much experience does your group have? Does the project use anything (art, music, starter kits) you didn't create?
Intermediate-Advanced.
No
What challenges did you encounter?
The most difficult challenge was precisely extracting active network interface properties via netifaces to prevent UDP packets from broadcasting into empty virtual space. Resolving this required dynamically calculating valid subnet broadcast addresses so that seamless, multi-instance mesh routing functioned flawlessly across both Android devices and local PC loops.