Recently, or was it some time ago now - time passes so quickly - I was pleased to be gifted a couple of Arduino MKR LoRa boards for asking a question during the recent LoRa Meets Arduino Webinar (https://event.on24.com/eventRegistration/console/EventConsoleApollo.jsp?&eventid=2350848&sessionid=1&username=&partnerre… ). Usually it seems around the home, I get told off for asking questions, so it was nice to be encouraged to ask questions. Today the bag containing thee items arrived. Hooray!
As well as the two MKR 1310 boards there was a bonus Arduino 33 IoT board, not sure what that was for, maybe for just being me! but it was still very welcome. I will have to have a play with that 33 IoT board a bit later. It does have a strange clip thing at the end, near the WiFi chip. I'm not sure what it is. Does anyone know? It seems to have a blob of epoxy inside it, maybe it is some sort of aerial or similar. I looked on the Arduino website but could not find anything describing what this clip was for. I'm sure I'll find out eventually.
It was amusing to see my name printed twice on the envelope containing these boards:
Dubbie Dubbie
Dubbie Dubbie
I liked it so much I might use it myself. A bit like New York, so good they named it twice.
Anyway, thanks Element14 for all these goodies and I now have several new areas that I will need to look into and learn about. For example, do I need a LoRa Gateway to use these two MKR 1310 LoRa boards to talk to each other, or can they talk directly point-to-point?
Dubbie Dubbie
Dubbie Dubbie
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