In the Netherlands, KPN was the first to offer nationwide coverage of a IoT network based on LoRaWAN. You can read about my first tests using their Network in combination with the Marvin node in this post. Unlike with the IoT network that for example is currently being rolled out by T-Mobile, which uses NB-IoT and different hardware than The Things Network (TTN), […]
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At AliExpress they sell a number of cheap GPS modules that you can use for Arduino. I ordered one (this one) GY-NEO6MV2 for €6,82 incl. free shipping (the seller doesn’t offer free shipping anymore so you might want to shop around a bit) and wanted to try it out on the LoPy. Now, I wanted to say that using it is really easy, […]
Now that Alex explained everyone how to use MQTT in combination with the LoPy, I thought it was time to show some more advanced uses of MQTT in case you still had no idea why you would bother learning to understand it. The nice thing about MQTT (MQ Telemetry Transport or Message Queue Telemetry Transport) as a protocol, is that it […]
I still wasn’t out of “what if…” scenario’s for the devices I had been playing with in relation to The Things Network / LoRaWAN. Because, although I had used the WiFi (and of course LoRA) capabilities of the LoPy a lot, I had not yet played with its BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy) capabilities. For that I needed something else that could […]
What happens if you take a LoRaWAN node with you in a train while you travel across the Netherlands for about 2,5 hours? I did not know and wanted to find out today because I had to be in Zwolle for a meeting. So I charged a big external battery (with 2 USB ports), drilled a couple of holes in a […]
One of the challenges left with regards to the LoPy was to find a way to actually connect sensors to the node. I had little luck with the DHT11 temperature/moisture sensor (one of the drawbacks of MicroPython over regular Arduino code is the lack of libraries) and didn’t have any I2C sensors lying around. But I did of course still had […]
If there is a thing that is dislike most, than it is giving up on a technical problem before it is solved. So, although this weekend a late cold finally managed to make me sleep more than usual, I did manage to spend some time with The Things Network, the LoPy Nano Gateway and the Marvin Node. So, one thing that […]
If your are used to learning stuff without there being a clear manual available, without a teacher that gives you a step by step breakdown of what to do, like when you like to experiment and play with electronics or ict, then you know how frustrating the process of trial and error can be to get something to work. And how […]
Na de LoPy loopt er op het moment weer een LoRa Kickstarter campagne: de Marvin, een project van RDM Makerspace uit Rotterdam. De Marvin verschilt op een aantal punten van de LoPy. Zo beschikt hij niet over WiFi of BLE (Bluetooth Low Energy), is er geen sprake van een externe antenne (zat blijkbaar wel bij de prototypes) en is er geen […]