A learning-in-public log: LoRaWAN, Meshtastic, and the messier reality of putting long-range, low-power radio on a Scottish hill. New post most Sundays. Real numbers, real photos, real mistakes.
There's no community LoRaWAN gateway within thirty kilometres of Corby, so the only way onto The Things Network was to build the gateway myself: a Waveshare SX1303 HAT, a veteran Raspberry Pi 4, and a current Raspberry Pi OS where most of the published recipes have stopped working.
Read the postLast time the Discovery kit only ever said it transmitted. This time a second radio, built on different silicon and a different software stack, independently says it heard, and breaking the link on purpose shows which settings the air interface actually demands.
Read →Phase 1 begins not with a soldering iron but with toolchain dignity — PlatformIO, the STM32 Discovery kit, and the unshowy work of getting a board to report its first raw LoRa packet.
Read →Most posts in this corner of the internet pick a winner. This one is the family tree — what each of the six technologies actually is, and where each one tends to fit, before the series picks one to dig into.
Read →On the bench in the workshop: an STM32 Discovery kit, a Waveshare gateway HAT, three Raspberry Pis, a diymore LoRa V4 board, and — fresh in the post — two Meshtastic nodes still in their boxes. The kickoff for a six-month learning-in-public series on LoRaWAN and Meshtastic.
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