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Re:LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 2... by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:17AM (#20571684)
Yeah...

I tried to make an open source radio system like LoRa before LoRa existed, but I mostly failed to deliver on my kickstarter. :-/

I did make a 915/868 MHz frequency hopping radio protocol that is open source, as well as ARM powered hardware to drive it, but it turns out everything I wanted to do was way more work than I realized.

Bummer that LoRa hardware is proprietary, but I suppose so was the cpu and radio chip I used. Would be nice to get some open source digital radio chips!

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Re:LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 2... by sorisos on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @03:25AM (#20572320)
That sounds interesting. Could you please provide a link to the open source project?
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Re:LoRaWAN distance world record broken twice: 766km using 2... by TaylorAlexander on Wednesday July 31, 2019 @12:12PM (#20575592)
Sure:

https://github.com/flutterwireless/FlutterWirelessLibrary

https://github.com/flutterwireless/FlutterHardware

I have lots of hardware I could share if anyone would pick it up in the Bay Area, and I can make all the IP CC0 or MIT licensed instead of copyleft it desired.

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