Collaborate Disseminate
[Renzo Mischianti]’s friend has to keep a water tank topped up. Problem is, the tank itself is 1.5 km away, so its water level isn’t typically known. There’s no electricity …read more Continue reading LoRa Helps With Remote Water Tank Level Sensing
Embedded engineer [Alberto Nunez] has put together a compact LoRa satellite telemetry ground station that fits in your hand and can be built for around $40 USD. The station receives …read more Continue reading DIY Low-Cost LoRa Satellite Ground Station
Setting up a wireless sensor network over a wide area can quickly become costly, and making everything communicate smoothly can be a massive headache, especially when you’re combining short range …read more Continue reading Farm Data Relay System: Combine LoRa and 2.4 Ghz Networks Without WiFi Routers And Cloud Dependence
It’s fair to say that right now is probably the worst possible time you could choose to design a new piece of hardware. Of course the reality is that, even …read more Continue reading Designing a LoRa Gateway During a Part Shortage
For some power users, the one-hundred-and-something keys on regular keyboards just aren’t enough for their everyday tasks. Macro keypads are a popular way of extending one’s input capabilities, and there …read more Continue reading Odd Inputs and Peculiar Peripherals: The LowPow ShortKeyboard Can Work on Your Desk or Out in the Field
Affordable and reliable cell phones have revolutionized the way we communicate over the last two decades or so, and this change was only accelerated by the adoption of the smartphone. …read more Continue reading Long-Distance Text Communication with LoRa
One of the design requirements for the networks that evolved into the Internet was the ability to keep functioning, even if some nodes or links were disabled or destroyed in …read more Continue reading LoRa-Powered Birdhouses Enable Wireless Networking When The Internet’s Down
GPS has been a game-changing technology for all kinds of areas. Shipping, navigation, and even synchronization of clocks have become tremendously easier thanks to GPS. As a result of its …read more Continue reading Low Power Mode for Custom GPS Tracker
When traveling into the wilderness with a group of people, it’s good to have a method of communications set up both for safety and practicality. In the past people often …read more Continue reading An Off-Grid Makeshift Cell Network
[Elite Worm] had a problem; there had been two minor burglaries from a storage unit. The unit had thick concrete walls, cellular signal was poor down there, and permanent wiring …read more Continue reading Long Range Burglar Alarm Relies on LoRa Modules