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Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ?

From rbowman <bowman@montana.com>
Newsgroups comp.os.linux.misc
Subject Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ?
Date 2026-05-27 07:09 +0000
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On Wed, 27 May 2026 00:18:23 -0400, c186282 wrote:

>    Have considerable experience using Ards, and the low-power library,
>    to collect field data with only a very small solar panel.

Adafruit has a couple of similar products with the SAM D21 Cortex-M

https://www.adafruit.com/product/3178

The old Unos were great for their day but they have their limits even the 
R4. The nice thing about the Cortex-M designs is most of them have enough 
storage that you can use MicroPython, CircuitPython, or the traditional 
Arduino libraries. Even the Picos with the Arduino Core and Phil 
Hightower's RP2040 library can look like an Arduino.

SparkFun has one too.

https://www.sparkfun.com/sparkfun-lora-thing-plus-explorable.html

SparkFun and AdaFruit are in a pissing contest and I tend to favor 
Adafruit. They have a lot of available resources and have done quite a bit 
to promote MCUs. 

There's a MPLAD extension for VS Code that replaces the older Microchip 
IDE if you're a real glutton. Like the C SDK for the Picos I think that's 
a real break glass in case of emergency deal. I'm quite happy with the 
uniformity of the Pythons or Arduino across the various MCUs I want to 
play with.

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Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-25 01:46 -0400
  Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-25 17:56 +0000
    Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-26 01:27 -0400
      Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null> - 2026-05-26 22:11 +0000
        Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-26 23:04 -0400
          Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-27 03:21 +0000
            Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? c186282 <c186282@nnada.net> - 2026-05-27 00:18 -0400
              Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? rbowman <bowman@montana.com> - 2026-05-27 07:09 +0000
            Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2026-05-27 14:14 +0100
      WiFi range ... Lars Poulsen <lars@beagle-ears.com> - 2026-05-31 21:19 -0700
        Re: WiFi range ... TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null> - 2026-06-01 04:26 +0000
      Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? Andy Burns <usenet@andyburns.uk> - 2026-06-01 08:10 +0100
        Re: Recent Experience With RF "Modem-ish" Data Links ? TheLastSysop <thelastsysop@dev.null> - 2026-06-01 07:33 +0000

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