The idea behind the Helium project really struck me as a unique intersection of radios, decentralization, and cryptocurrency. And as The Peoples Network keeps growing I saw a need to somehow quantify how well your hotspot is doing at its current position compared to the other hotspots around you. This is because the amount of… Continue reading Helium Hotspot Performance Analysis With Hotspots Health
With any successful wireless system, you want to have some theoretical basis that your transmitted information can reach its intended receiver with enough power to be deciphered correctly. This is the basic idea behind a link budget where you compile information about your radio hardware and setup such as transmitter power, receiver sensitivity, antenna gain,… Continue reading Simulating Helium with HotspotRF
I have been hearing about Helium for a while now and it seems to be gaining traction with n number of gateways now scattered throughout the world it is starting to become a viable solution to providing an IoT backend. The incentive to gateway owners being the HNT cryptocurrency that is mined when they provide… Continue reading Nebra Helium Hotspot Miner
When I was moving houses a few months back I needed a second wifi router to connect several surveillance cameras to while we were not living in the new place. The problem was that during the pandemic I was not sure if a new wifi router would arrive on time. Thankfully I had a spare… Continue reading Raspberry Pi WiFi Router
