New Arduino edge controller/compute bd allows various connectivity options. Add Arduino MKR bd for LoRa/LoRaWAN connectivity. With solar and larger Pb battery options looking at heavier duty applications & potential edge AI use cases vs true ultra low power node use.
Semtech Introduce a FULL DUPLEX ref design for US bands (as follow up to the one for China bands from last summer)
Semtech code base on Raspberry Pi Pico using the awesomely reliable RFM95 (or indeed any other radio chip that’s supported in it) for all your non-low power needs.
My Pico with its power circuitry bypassed sleeps at 900uA so not in the running any time soon for battery power. Some potential for a custom RP2040 board at 180uA from the spec sheet but some way from desireable.
Semtech and Echostar Europe/Mobile collaborating on Satellite based IoT using LoRaWAN
A tool that might be useful for anyone knocking out their own maker board?
2 Likes
That’s ok then 
Not on any workbench soon …
SADFACE (sorry, because of limited emoticon-like-buttons on this forum)
!!!
Would be nice if they reserved and sold low quantities (like 1 or 2) at least for developers.
I’m so with you on that. Anyone of us could create a PoC device that in 18 months time needs 10,000’s. I have 6 left but with this new date, dare not use it in a design any time soon. Nor an Arduino MKR WAN 1310 which uses them.
Problem is how to police such a developer support supply. I have a semi background and during a capacity crunch a few industry cycles back we did something similar via a tame disty/partner. LT’s on one DSP/MCU fn went out from 10-12 weeks to 30+ in less than a month with product (wafer starts) on allocation, and the 3 reels (~9kpcs IIRC) developer stock we provisioned in just such a manner, which was supposed to be limited to max 10pcs per developer/end customer, disappeared within 1 week! When we checked later we found a mid tier end client who was desperate for supply to ramp a newly launched device had stepped in and had staff, families, friends (and rumour has it even a local vicar who was a bit of a hobbyist & radio ham!) place multiple orders x 10off to secure what they needed, burning through 2+ reels and the rest went to others across industry…we were then out of stock again within just 3 weeks… & back to square one!
reminds me a bit of when I started building GW’s using RAK conc bds with RPi0w’s (before they were offered with 40pin headers prebuilt) and decision was limit to 1 pc order per end customer - did the rounds of the RPi emporiums to buy one off no problem, but then found 2nd orders being rejected unfullfilled as they realised I was a returning customer… amazing how my kids, the wife, other close family members and some friends all suddenly developed an interest in RPi’s and specifically the RP0W’s…without headers 
(I would have settled for the unit with headers but RPi sits above interface board and of course the RPi0W(H) assumed users would plug things in from above! Dho!)
1 Like
RPi manage with the Pi0W - the postage charge helps as well. If I was Murata/ST etc, checking for a business website isn’t hard and limit orders to once a quarter per domain.
If anyone missed it LoRWAN is now formally allowed for use in Israel - using 917-920Mhz - a variation L-A is refering to as AS923-4 …moving us beyond ‘approved trials only’ 
New HopeRF LoRa Tranceiver Module: RFM95CW
I spotted the HopeRF RFM95CW module which appears to be new.
It looks like a shielded version of the RFM95(W) module and has FCC certification.
Markings on the shield: RFM95C
1 Like
New resources added, and more to come, should also be easier to find relevant materials…I haven’t explored in detail yet. Also, as before, provides a development network server to test against if generating products/services looking beyond just the scope of TTN ( using Chipstack instance). 
wonder if it can/does peer with TTN via PacketBroker?!
Price rises ahead due to shortages, $35 2GB Pi4 heading back up to $45, with the bad news softened by re-introduction of the 1GB version back at the $35 price point. Also, sounds like those of us using Pi Zeroes or 3B+'s for our gateways may also struggle with supply over next 12 months or so
A new small form factor Arduino/sensor bd… perhaps worth pairing with a LoRaWAN module with integrated stack using AT commands over UART or poss over SPI? Processor is 64 MHz Arm® Cortex M4 (nRF52832). Memory is 512KB Flash / 64KB RAM; 2MB SPI Flash for storage; 2MB QSPI dedicated for BHI260AP