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EP#151: Why Mesh Networking Matters – Brandon Satrom

2018-12-19

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Why Mesh Networking Matters – Brandon Satrom

Brandon SatromDeveloper Advocate for Particle, an IoT platform companyThe founder of Carrot Pants Press, a company dedicated to educating makersOn the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Episode Number 122, Brandon discussed the Particle Photon and built an IoT breathalyzer with Parker live on the podcastWhat is currently distracting Brandon now?Why mesh networking matters
Existing mesh networking standards
Thread/OpenThread and why Particle built OpenThread into 3rd gen devicesWhat is OpenThread?Mesh Christmas Tree project5 device network with a gateway and 4 edge devicesParticle Blog detailing more about the projectOne edge device publishes multicast messages to all other nodes, which light up neopixel strips when those messages are received on each deviceThe goal was to see how low latency UDP-based mesh messaging wasResearching theory around "the color of sound" and added a mode to the firmware that converts the frequency of a played note into a corresponding rgb value on the color spectrum. Kinda.SynethesiaWorking today on a mode that ties the Adafruit Neotrellis into the network to create a "tree synth"
Questions from Jarret from our Public Slack ChannelCould you have a sportsgame of some sort, and hand out each spectator a little LED/LCD with mesh chip, and have all 10k systems attempting to figure out where they are in the stadium, and maybe also connect to a base station, so they all receive color information and turns the audience into a huge display?Reminds Parker of the North Korean "displays"What is a good distributed power system for mesh networking?I've started logging metrics for my indoor garden, but currently I'm using a million phone chargers plugged in everywhere and that kinda sucksUpdate on the Carrot Pants Press?Lastest kickstarter was a success!

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Tags: Carrot Pants Press, IoT, Mesh Networking, OpenThread, Particle, Synethesia