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BastWAN, please meet your cousin WisBlock
While I have been busy lately with BastWAN and my BastMobile project, I haven’t forgotten WisBlock – I was after one of the lucky fellows to receive a full WisBlock kit (we joked with the project manager that it wasn’t so much a beta kit as a gamma kit, as in gamma rays. There were…
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How hot are you, BastWAN?
In one of my mailbags last year, I had a bunch of sensors from Taobao, including a BME680 sensor I am using with the BastMobile, and an MLX90614 infrared thermometer. It was rather inexpensive, 40 yuan, 6 bucks, so while shopping for other stuff I added one to the order. And promptly forgot about it.…
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Digital Nomadism
I read recently this article by Dr Lucy Rogers (via this tweet by RS Components), and I thought I’d share my perspective on this subject, since I’ve had some experience with this – as I’ve been mostly a nomad myself, both analog and digital, between 1990 and early 2020. There’s one point I’d like to…
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BastWAN EEPROM-based Preferences
In the previous post we saw how to connect an EEPROM and dump its contents. Nice but not OVERLY useful. On the BastMobile, the BastWAN connected to a Keyboard Featherwing, I managed to get the SD card up and running, so my prefs are nicely saved onto the SD card. Let’s do the same for…
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Adding an EEPROM to a BastWAN
While I was able to use the SD card on my BastMobile’s Keyboard Featherwing, my other BastWAN devices don’t have an SD card, or an EEPROM. There was a plan to add Flash memory to the board but that was scrapped. So I went dumpster diving, almost literally, and dug up some EEPROMs I had…
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BME680 & BastWAN
Following up on I²C scanner for the BastWAN, I thought I’d share what I used to get THP measurements on the BME680 with a BastWAN. On our WisBlock platform, we have some nice sample code that’s quite evolved – the pinned tweet on my profile is actually a WisBlock running a quite advanced sketch, with alcohol…
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I²C scanner for the BastWAN
While experimenting with the latest version of the BastWAN [documentation on GitHub], I started writing code for I²C sensors. The first thing one needs to do, if things don’t work as planned, is to check the I²C bus and see if the device is actually recognized. So we need an I²C scanner. Ideally, an I²C…
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BastWAN: Creating a new Serial port
For… reasons… I need a new Serial port for one of my BastWAN devices. So I enquired, and one of the BastWAN designers pointed me to an article. I followed religiously the tutorial, and nyet, nothing… After a little back and forth, both on WeChat and on our Slack channel (which is back, thanks SalesForce…
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All-in-one Blackberry-like LoRa messenger
I have been playing with the various beta versions of the BastWAN (pre-order on the RAK store or the Electronic Cats store for LATAM), designed by Electronic Cats, with a RAKwireless RAK4260 at the core, and produced by RAK. I have a bunch of them – v1.2, v1.3 and the release version 2.0 – which I…
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RAK4631 Preview
Being the guy in charge of complaining at RAK wireless, I was the lucky recipient of a WisBlock kit – we joked internally that it wasn’t an alpha, or beta, version, but a gamma version – the radioactive kind. The kit itself is impressive. A big box, 25 x 25 x 10 cm approximately, it has…
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