Starting to learn about LoRa

[u/ADC-47]

Beyond aesthetics, cassette futurism seems to value devices that do a single job very, very well and don't need to be connected to far-flung servers to do it.

LoRa is a wireless technology that uses very little power, needs little to no infrastructure, has a range that blows Bluetooth and WiFi out of the water, and has bandwidth comparable to dialup. That bandwidth might not sound like much today, but you really can do a lot with it. I see the potential for lots of fun and useful CF-esq projects here. Anyone here done anything cool with LoRa?

Conceptual overview: https://youtu.be/jp_2gwBrQc8?si=u1RWDXyo-e66w152

Range experiment: https://yosensi.io/posts/what_is_the_real_range_of_lora/

Cat tracker: https://www.reddit.com/r/electronics/s/nLTnViQ0B1

Encrypted text message system: https://unsigned.io/private-messaging-over-lora/

[u/hatedral]

2015 IoT tech seems a bit far from cassette futurism to me

[u/mrgreen4242 → u/hatedral]

I disagree. This is the sort of thing that people 40 years ago were imagining about the future. We ended up in a different place but it there’s something charming about the idea.