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 →Last 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.
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