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Coming events

DateEvent
2024Maker Faire (more info soon!)

Press Releases

DateTitle
4 Jun 2020LoRa board with peer-to-peer protocol
6 Apr 2020RadioShuttle “MQTT Push Client” app brings dashboard view
18 Mar 2019MQTT push app offers notifications in IoT environments
11 Sep 2018LoRa radio technology with MQTT notification on mobile phones
11 May 2018ESP32 ECO Power with LoRa offers wireless communication up to 20 km
20 Dec 2017Arduino Zero LoRa board with new RadioShuttle 1.6 protocol
1 Nov 2017Arduino LoRa radio technology with range up to 20 km

Tech Infos

DateTitle
17 Jul 2020Eagle board: disable charge LED
8 Jul 2019RadioShuttle and other IDEs such as “PlatformIO”
22 Aug 2018Operating the ECO Power board with an OLED display
11 Jul 2018Battery-Powered ESP32
9 Jul 2018Read out Battery Voltage on the LongRa Board
22 Jun 2018Note on the Spreading Factors SF7 and SF12

Demo video: “MQTT Push Client” app with custom GUI for MQTT environments

Our “MQTT Push Client” app allows receiving MQTT messages and displaying them in a list or in a GUI (“Dashes”). The GUI allows elements like buttons, sliders, icons, text panels etc. with colors and background images to display or send MQTT messages. In addition, the Custom View dash allows designing the complete element using HTML. MQTT messages can trigger a push notification with sound.

“MQTT Push Client” app with custom GUI for MQTT environments (audio in German)

Special edition: LongRa boards for a customer

The great benefit is that all RadioShuttle boards use the identical software, here the LongRa board with the D21 MCU, or the Eagle & ECO Power boards with ESP32 MCU, or the energy-saving Turtle board with the STM L4 MCU.

LongRa boards – special edition

Turtle and Eagle Boards used in Projects at TU Dresden

At Dresden University of Technology, Institute of Building Climatology, they are working on a precision monitoring system to measure temperature and humidity to observe the drying period for different materials.

Engineers, Makers and other parties with programming know-how are welcome to help the institute to bring this project forward. We are happy to make the contacts.
A very interesting project using our Eagle and Turtle boards.

For more information click on the image.

Turtle boards used with radar movement detection

A client shared with us information about his ongoing projects with the RadioShuttle Turtle boards. He added a custom-made radar board to the Turtle board. The radar signal is amplified and arrives via ADC (analog-to-digital converter). The STM32L4 microcontroller runs an algorithm that continually computes the energy from the ADC input. By comparing the energy with the background energy, motion can be detected.

Possible applications could be motion detection in lighting environments and communication with other LoRa nodes, to inform the environment and other lights.

All has been developed by a very smart engineer who was diving into Mbed OS debugging using our RadioShuttle Turtle solution. Great work!

Turtle boards used with radar movement detection

Demo video: Turtle Board First Steps – Getting Started

Turtle Board First Steps – Getting Started

Demo video: Turtle board – programming sample applications

RadioShuttle »Turtle« LoRa board programming with Mbed OS using sample applications

Training videos: “NV Property” and “MQTT Push Client”

RadioShuttle NVProperty API for Arduino and Mbed OS
MQTT push notification and the RadioShuttle app for iOS and Android

Maker Faire 2019 in Hannover

Also at the Maker Faire in Hannover the booth of the “LoRa Funktechnik bei Arduino-Hannover” met with lively interest. Here some impressions:

The joint stand of Arduino Hannover was the largest booth of the entire fair, and was very well attended.
Our booth “LoRa-Funktechik”, …
… where some very good conversations took place.
The presentation board is equipped with various radio modules. Starting with WiFi, two LoRa nodes, a LoRa station (as server) and a ZigBee sensor. The data is processed by a Raspberry Pi, stored in an InfluxDB and graphically displayed with Grafana in the web browser.

Presentation: LoRa radio technology – basics with Arduino application examples

Recorded at Maker Fiare 2019 in Hannover.

Maker Faire 2019 in Berlin

Here are some impressions from our booth where we extensively presented the LoRa radio technology and had many interesting conversations.

There was a lot of interest at the “LoRa-Funktechnik bei Arduino Hannover” booth
We had many interesting conversations
The youngest maker (10 yo) who is interested in LoRa radio technology. First of all he explained to us that circuit boards can be ordered for 5 Euros in China. And he already knows a lot about other things as well. We are curious what he will do with the LoRa boards …

Those who could not attend the “LoRa-Funktechnik Grundlagen / Arduino Anwendungsbeispiele” presentation can download it here as a PDF (in German):

RadioShuttle update at year’s end

In 2018, which is now drawing to a close, we have made significant progress:

  • New ECO Power board with WiFi (based on ESP32)
  • Updated LongRa board (v 7.5, more pins, voltage measurement)
  • New RadioShuttle software 3.1 (including 18 examples)
  • Non-volatile memory for properties (“PropertyEditor” program)
  • Extensive MQTT support (MQTT-Client, RadioShuttle MQTT gateway)

We presented at the Maker Faire 2018 in Hannover, for the first time, our MQTT push server solution. It allows important events from sensors, or measurement data to be automatically transmitted via MQTT to the mobile phone via push (e.g. burglary, water leaks, failing cooling systems, temperature statistics data). The Android app is already available, the iOS app is expected for January 2019. The apps can be downloaded free of charge from the respective store.

We would like to thank all RadioShuttle users for their interest and great feedback.

Happy holidays and a happy new year 2019!

Your RadioShuttle team from Hannover

Maker Faire 2018 in Hannover

Lecture on the basics of LoRa radio technology with Arduino application examples. Explains the LoRa radio protocol software, LoRaWAN and RadioShuttle peer-to-peer (in German):

Our solution has received the “Maker of Merit” 2018 award from the editorial staff of Make: magazine, which we are very pleased about:

Impressions from the Maker Faire 2018 in Hannover:

Arduino ESP32

Presentation: Überblick zum ESP32 mit Arduino (in German)


Download Überblick zum ESP32 mit Arduino as a PDF document (in German)
See the YouTube video (in German)

Presentation: ESP32 Arduino Workshop (in German)


Download ESP32 Arduino Workshop as a PDF document (in German)

Maker Faire Hannover 2017

On the Arduino Hannover LoRa exhibition stand, we presented the LongRa board and the RadioShuttle protocol for the first time in public.

Presentations:

  • Arduino 32-bit LongRa board
  • RadioShuttle peer-to-peer LoRa wireless protocol software
  • STMicroelectronics STM B-L072Z-LRWAN1 (LoRa based on the Murata chip)
  • IMST LoRaWAN Concentrator (with Raspberry PI)
  • Atmel D21 Xplained with an external LoRa board
  • STMicroelectronics STM32L4 Nucleo with an external LoRa board
  • Environmental sensor solution, Arduino 32-bit driven using LoRa data transmission via the RadioShuttle protocol

LoRa radio technology introduction with Arduino IoT sensor

The LoRa video presentation at the Maker Faire Hannover 2017 (in German)