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I built a basic LoRa network so I could send data from my washing machine in the apartment cellar to my Home Assistant box in my apartment several floors up. It very much did occur to me that the technologies/skills I was learning would also be useful to create a decentralized mesh network for general communication.

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I built a basic LoRa network so I could send data from my washing machine in the apartment cellar to my Home Assistant box in my apartment several floors up.

I have sensors in eight of my plants that use LoRa to transmit moisture levels to an SBC running Forth that lights up a single segment in an LED bar to let me know which ones should be watered.

I like to think the electricity has made the plants super-intelligent and now they talk to each over over LoRa and plot against the cat.

Love it.

> I like to think the electricity has made the plants super-intelligent and now they talk to each over over LoRa and plot against the cat.

This should be the next Pixar film.

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