Open Hardware LoRaWAN Workshop

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Funded by the DATA Project (University of Leeds) and the Software Sustainability Institute, with support from Jo Walsh (current SSI Fellow).

Bridge Rectifier is volunteer-run. Donations to the space are always welcome.

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Here's roughly how the day works:

Morning: two groups, two rooms, swap at midpoint. One group gets the context session (what LoRaWAN is, why community environmental monitoring matters, the Calder Valley story, the South Africa connection). The other group builds a sensor node on a breadboard, no soldering, pre-flashed boards, wire it up, power on, see your data on the dashboard. Then swap. Everyone gets both.

All 20 CubeCells will be pre-flashed with firmware and pre-registered in ChirpStack. Each kit bag has a device card. Participants wire four jumpers, plug in battery, attach antenna, power on. No laptops needed, no Arduino, no accounts. We'll have a few Pis and laptops in the space for anyone who wants to dig deeper, plus 3-4 raw unflashed kits on a side table for experienced people.

Afternoon: two rooms, free movement between them. Upstairs: soldering, building permanent monitoring nodes for deployment. Downstairs: community conversation about where sensors should go, who owns the data, what the real problems are. Signal-mapping walk up the Calder Valley mid-afternoon, for those that way inclined.

Saturday 13th June walk: still TBC. There's a question on the sign-up form gauging interest. If we can make it happen, we will walk along the Calder Valley visiting potential monitoring sites, with Meshtastic signal mapping.