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#380 – Just Terrestrial and Space Things
Yes, it’s true. Dave and Chris talk about IoT in earnest, mostly because Chris brought it up.
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- Dave and David are testing the lifetime of a range switch using a jig.
- Using the HY3131 datasheet you could in theory write your own firmware for the 121GW. An EEVblog community member started reverse engineering the firmware.
- FOSDEM
- Tjeerd in the background making a face at Chris showing hardware
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- Richard Ginus (past guest) helped design the TWTG / TTN gateway. He did a better job of explaining it than Chris does here. There is an EU version (868 MHz) and a US/Aus version (915 MHz). Dave was looking at this lower cost one.
- Jereon on the show talking about the ESP32.
- LoRa stuff by Andreas Spiess, including super cheap gateways. You can get them here as well (but watch the video for caveats about them).
- SigFox is a similar offering but with a reversed model to TTN (charge for access to the towers)
- MickMake does great videos with weekly roundups of new boards, including lots of connected products.
- Particle announced their new mesh products! Each board has an nRF52, which uses OpenThread to create the mesh (AFAIK).
- Don’t use Iota for IoT (apparently)
- Ben Heck is moving on! But you can try out for his job
- Circuit boards…in spaaaaace!
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