(Outdoor) Ballooning with antennas
We meet indoors at CDC Circle and go outside to launch some comms infrastructure on a tethered balloon.
As every Star Trek fan knows, humans are "ugly bags of mostly water" [S1E18] so RF communication in areas densely packed with humans - or their infrastructure made of metal and stone - is problematic.
We'll explore ideas to overcome or mitigate this problem, ideas that are possible due to miniaturisation of RF devices and their constraints.
We'll discuss
- what we trying to achieve / the problem at hand
- the physical, electrical and financial constraints of our solution compared to other approaches
- what changed, why can we do this in 2025 but not in 2015?
In the end we'll raise a tethered balloon with Meshcore and a Reticulum nodes indoors or - depending on the situation - outdoors and playfully check the height and range we can achieve.
This is a fun workshop that wants to encourage people to play with compact yet easily deployable communication infrastructure, there will be some basic maths and diagrams, but nothing intimidating.
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| Language | English |
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