Duct tapes and zip ties hold the gateway and the antenna together on the mast, ready to go up. It's getting dark and it's hard to get focus. Will continue tomorrow.
Our 1000 litre water tank holds water for gardening and power emergencies. It's also useful to put things on it. And its metal cage is often used for attaching things that go high up. That moose bone is very useful when you need something to jam the mast in a plastic pipe attached to the tank cage to keep the whole thing stable.
In order to put the gateway high up we needed a couple of things. A mast – no problem, there were 6m (about 20ft) of aluminium lying around in the garden for some reason. The hermetic box was a problem though. When you live in the forest of Eastern Poland you just don't walk into a store and buy what you need. You buy what they have. We needed a hermetic box for the Raspberry Pi. Our store had Barbie raspberry ice cream. A perfect fit.
A short thread about Barbie, drills, and #LoRaWAN. This is our basic drill with an attachment to make standard size holes in plastic. Today we decided to put the second LoRaWAN gateway up – signals from some sensors didn't get through when the gataway and the antenna lied on the dogs' favorite couch in our tiny house.
Testing a #LoRaWAN sensor in the surrounding forests. If you don't know why the cover is open, please don't ask. If you know why, please don't laugh.
#Polesia wetlands #IdąPsięta
I wonder if they finally caught the wind of coal deposits just a few hundred metres below.
Przestał się kulić i eksploruje zagrodę. Okazuje się, że ta klatka była przeznaczona dla króþlików, ale nie miniaturowych. Trzeba było dodać zabezpieczenie. Dostał miseczkę z woda i kawałek marchewki, ale nadal nie chce na nas głosować.
#KrólikPasztet przeniesiony w bezpieczne miejsce. Początkowo nie chiał wyjść z transportera.
Zapewne to było tak:
"Drogie dzieci, wiecie, że jedziemy na wakacje do ciepłych krajów, ale nie możemy zabrać ze soba króliczka, bo to non-inclusive all-inclusive. Więc zostawimy go w lesie, tam będzie żył długo i szczęśliwie".
Taka kupka nieszczęścia siedziała w lesie koło kompostownika. Raczej nie miał jak przywędrować z najbliższej wsi. Druga, prawie równie prawdopodobna jak wakacje hipoteza to to, że porwał go gdzieś daleko wielki ptak i upuścił tuż koło naszego domu.
Chce ktoś króliczka? #IdąPsięta wykazały duże zainteresowanie.
Moved to https://circumstances.run/@Szescstopni. This account will stay up for a while.
Living in the #wetlands of #Polesia (#Polesie in Polish) in #EasternPoland. Surrounded by #bogs and #forests, trying not to fuck up surrounding nature too much.
Taking care of a small pack of #dogs (most of them rescue dogs) – #IdąPsięta.
#RuralBroadband provider by accident. Starting a small #LoRaWAN project to monitor our wetlands. Coding, mostly in #Python. Luddite.
#Atheist. I don't believe in #science – science is our defence against belief.
Fuck nazis.
I check facts before I toot.
I sometimes toot in Polish.
Zdolny, ale leniwy.