On Saturday, October 8, Fablab Winterthur invites you to a new workshop: During World Space Week 2022 we will build our own low-cost LoRa satellite ground stations together, and then we will test them together. The workshop will be held simultaneously as a World Space Week activity with Makerspace Esslingen e.V. .
We are building our own version based on Alberto Nunez ‘s ground station on Hackaday.com. With this ground station you become part of the TinyGS community and a network of over 1000 open-source stations receiving LoRa signals from various satellites.
Content:
- Assemble the hardware
- the Heltec LoRa Receiver
- the weatherproof housing
- connect the antenna
- Set up the software
- set up the TinyGS account
- set up the Heltec LoRa Receiver for the TinyGS network
- connect the WLAN
- Final tests
- Test station and antenna
- Who receives the first signal
- Who receives the farthest signal
We are on the terrace on the 4th floor of the Technopark for this.
Together with TTN_Esslingen, SpaceApps Stuttgart and AerospaceResearch.net we have been testing the stations ourselves for some time now and it is super easy, the community is fun and it really helps the satellite missions to get their telemetry data with almost no delay and no packet loss.
Target Audience:
- Anyone interested (ages 12 and up)
