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HumblyTossed

The name gets me every single time. Always think it’s going to be about radio LoRa

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Not just me then. It's always the first thing that springs to mind.

Nope not just you! Gets me everytime.

Microsofts inability to properly name things once again introduces more confusion than clarity, thanks Microsoft :)

At this point I think they do it on purpose, as their metrics for "people visiting the website/repository" or whatever gets increased as people thinking the repository is about the existing concept/technology.

Dang it! Got me too! I've been wanting to hop into Meshtastic lately.

Set up a node! Bare boards that work with the app are like $50 and take a few clicks to flash and setup. The basic antenna with no amp makes contacts up to 50mi away if the conditions are right. I have one in a window and one in a backpack at all times.

It's insane how far you can go between hops, really most impressive. Where I live the mesh density is fairly high but I've also tried it in places where it was vanishingly low and yet I never completely lost contact. LoRa is very much an underappreciated technology.

I have a couple of nodes up, but not seeing a lot of traffic

Same - sad it's not.

No such thing as LoRa and LoRaWAN without regret I'm afraid, all the range but no throughput.

You can do a lot with 255 bytes (SF5-8), just have to be creative :)

By the way, some time ago when I checked there were two cool applications of LoRa: (1) a mesh, for (hopefully) truly decentralized and more difficult to disrupt communication, (2) a gateway, so that you could get data from your sensors in remote places via standard internet protocols.

Both are very cool, but I wonder if I missed something else?

And I thought you were going to say thinking machines :). Buy yeah LoRA trips me up too.

I thought it was Lora the CRTD implementation, but then realized that Loro

Yeah, kinda disappointed it's just more AI stuff...

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