[Swansea Hackspace] TTN Swansea first LoRaWan AP

[Paul Harwood]

Thanks Jusin, it would have been set up last year, but the email they sent to confirm the delivery addresses got junked.

For the Hackspace community: FYI our next hackthecity event is:

https://www.meetup.com/HackTheCity-io-Swansea-Meetup/events/mfqzqpyxjbpb/ <https://www.meetup.com/HackTheCity-io-Swansea-Meetup/events/mfqzqpyxjbpb/>

Would be great to see people there if you can make it.

The last winner was this:

http://hackthecity.io/hackthecity-2-trash-talk-takes-the-title/ <http://hackthecity.io/hackthecity-2-trash-talk-takes-the-title/>

And the winning team are speaking with the council to possibly use the sensors to test out some refuse challenges locally.

The format is that you pay £2 to enter, we supply beer and drinks and people bring challenges and/or ideas. Then people stand up and pitch their idea/challenge, votes go into a hat for the best idea to win the door money. Last month’s pot was £30 and the winning team have to come back and say what they did with the money the following month.

The only limitation is that the idea/challenge must be solvable with technology.

— Paul

> On 30 May 2018, at 10:55, Justin Mitchell <justin at swansea.hackspace.org.uk> wrote:
> 
> On Wed, 2018-05-30 at 00:28 +0100, Paul Harwood wrote:
>> Hi
>> 
>> With huge thanks to Gerrit and Matthew (Gall), we borrowed a few connectors, diagnosed a badly fitted RF module and now we have the have the humble beginnings of an Things network in Swansea.
>> 
>> this is the model:
>> 
>> https://shop.thethingsnetwork.com/index.php/product/the-things-gateway/ <https://shop.thethingsnetwork.com/index.php/product/the-things-gateway/>
>> 
>> The window in the picture below looks out over Port Talbot, it's facing the Swansea University Bay Campus - no idea of range, but feel free to use it. I’m going to get some bits from the marketplace (maybe an air quality sensor) to test out.
>> 
>> https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/u/walletsystems <https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/u/walletsystems>
>> 
>> there is a map on there of the gateways locally under the gateways tab. I am trying to set up a community under the http://hackthecity.io <http://hackthecity.io/> project.
> 
> Congrats on being the first to get something going in Swansea,
> there had been musings on the subject for quite a while but nothing came of it.
> 
> No sign of your gateway on ttnmapper.org <http://ttnmapper.org/> yet, would be nice to see how far away it can be heard. if you have a battery powered device that can talk to it, send someone out with it and the mobile phone app and get some map points added :)
> 
> I'm still waiting on delivery of some LoRa radios for the 868MHz band, once i've got them up and running I will run a workshop on how to build simple lorawan enabled devices for anyone thats interested, should hopefully be a suitable followup to the wifi-IoT one i ran last month.
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