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LoRaWAN anybody experimenting with this?
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I have been following the advancements of LoRaWAN over the past few years, because the concept of a tiny little transceiver operating WAN without internet has fascinated me. There is now a development kit available for a measly 25 bucks from seeed studio (The LoRa-E5 https://www.seeedstudio.com/LoRa-E5-Dev-Kit-p-4868.html ). I purchased a couple of these about a week ago, and waiting for their arrival. As far as I can tell, most everything needed to get up and running is here. And now, $5 per month satellite access is available from swarm.

Here's an older (7 months ago) article on the swarm effort: https://www.semtech.com/company/press/se...-with-lora
As of today there are now over 100 satellites in Geo-stationary orbit, with 100 % coverage of Earth. Each satellite is about the size of a sandwich.

This, blows my mind and excites me to no end.

Most of the code I have seen is written in C. But with the computing power of this latest development board, I will attempt to get some python code up and running soon.

Some of the dev board features:
  • Full GPIOs led out from the Lora-E5 STM32WLE5JC
  • Global LoRaWAN® and LoRa frequency plan supported
  • Long-distance transmission range to 10km (ideal value in open area)
  • Mini and compact size, suitable for rapid testing and building small size prototype
  • Convenient RESET and BOOT buttons on board
  • world-first combo of LoRa RF and MCU chip into one single tiny chip and is FCC and CE certified, powered by ARM Cortex-M4 core and Semtech SX126X LoRa chip

Again, I'd love to see and hear from others who are currently experimenting, or are interested in the subject.
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#2
That does sound interesting. What are you going to try to use it for?
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#3
Right now, I'm in the process of learning how to configure the thing.
Next I will hook up to the satellite, and just snoop around to see what's out there.

Finally, I'm hoping that I can come up with a not so hair-brained idea for something useful,
probably fool around with the TeseoVIC3DA Dead reckoning GNSS modules and hook that up to OSM for mapping.
see: https://www.st.com/content/ccc/resource/...Module.pdf

Open to any type of experimentation.

EDIT: 3:41 P.M. (EST)

Here's an interesting video:
First LoRa Satellite launch video, (Julian Fernandez (16 years old)) it's old for this technology, nearly 2 years ago, but of interest to see how it all started (There are now 113 satellites (perhaps more)). https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k0aM-PJzo8
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