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> This can be seen in my highly necessary depiction below.

I love this. Fun and insightful article. Thank you.

Me too, but that particular picture was confusing. Shouldn't the board be with the human, 120 ft from the wifi access point being connected to? Now it looks as if the human screams at the board from 120 ft away, or something.

Other than that, hugely impressive project of course, it makes any board I've tried to design/assemble look impossibly huge. :)

No, I think the human holds a smartphone, is standing 38m away from the board, and is still able to connect to the distant board via the open Access Point it makes available. It's a testament to the communication between the Access Point and the human connecting to it.

FTA:

> In a clear line of sight test with the f32 placed about 3ft off the ground I was able to connect and perform scans/control the LED at roughly 120ft!

Fun fact, at that size the whole f32 is smaller than the wavelength of the radio waves it's using for 2.4GHz WiFi. Not that this is unique by any stretch, but it's still fun to think about. (Edit: formatting)

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