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LoRa Rewards : Unbagging

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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.

 

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It was amusing to see my name printed twice on the envelope containing these boards:

 

Dubbie Dubbie

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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?

 

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  • They can talk directly to each other, point-to-point.

    You do not need a gateway. Here is an example....

    LoRa GeLo MKR - Long Range Geo-Locator MKR 1300

  • in reply to dougw

    Douglas,

     

    Thanks for the advice, comment and link. I followed the link to your previous Blog about LoRa - which I do vaguely remember reading but I knew less then than I do now and wasn't that interested in wireless stuff, plus I had not been using Element14 long, so I didn't absorb or remember much of it - but I think I will have to have another look when I connect up the MKR 1310s.

     

    One problem I have had has been getting the small plug thing on an aerial to connect to the socket thing on the PCB. They are so small and do not seem to want to connect together. Is there some technique to getting them connected as I have been reluctant to try brute force.

     

    Dubbie Dubbie Dubbie

    Dubbie

  • in reply to dubbie

    Those UFL connectors are tricky. I wasn't sure how to connect them either. You can see from this picture they just seem to be a push on connector.

    They are pretty delicate and can be bent enough to make it hard to snap them together. Might be worth a magnifier inspection with a loupe prior to insertion.

    One of the connectors I had took enough force that it could easily mangle the connector if it wasn't lined up properly.

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  • in reply to dougw

    Douglas,

     

    I was rather hoping that someone might have some special trick way of mating these connectors. The idea of using a eye loupe is good thought - I will try that.

     

    Dubbie Dubbie Dubbie Dubbie

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