Now that’s the Technology community I like.
Right? It’s refreshing to see a post here that’s about technology that works for us rather than yet another article about AI being shoved into more places that no one asked for or development progress updates on the Torment Nexus.
More posts like this, please.
What’s the range and power consumption of these bad boys?
Depends but I have some cheap esp based heltech knock offs from temu that do about 2km from being haphazardly taped into my upstairs windows. Power draw is about 200ma but I don’t bother with deep sleep or other optimizations. I’m in a flat suburban area.
I imagine it’d be much better if I whipped them up on the chimney with proper antenna but for something that just fits in my pocket they’re really impressive.
Oh, nice! The Xiao seed, unlike the Heltec’s I have, comes with 8 MB of PSRAM which makes it suitable for acting as a store-and-forward node.
May have to pick up at least one of these since that’s one thing I’d like to add to the mesh I’m putting together.
