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Why Mesh Networking Matters – Brandon Satrom

• Brandon Satrom
  • Developer Advocate for Particle, an IoT platform company
  • The founder of Carrot Pants Press, a company dedicated to educating makers
  • On the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Episode Number 122, Brandon discussed the Particle Photon and built an IoT breathalyzer with Parker live on the podcast
• What is currently distracting Brandon now?
  • Why mesh networking matters
    
  • Existing mesh networking standards
    
  • Thread/OpenThread and why Particle built OpenThread into 3rd gen devices
    • What is OpenThread?
  • Mesh Christmas Tree project
    • 5 device network with a gateway and 4 edge devices
    • Particle Blog detailing more about the project
    • One edge device publishes multicast messages to all other nodes, which light up neopixel strips when those messages are received on each device
    • The goal was to see how low latency UDP-based mesh messaging was
    • Researching 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.
      • Synethesia
    • Working today on a mode that ties the Adafruit Neotrellis into the network to create a "tree synth"
      
• Questions from Jarret from our Public Slack Channel
  • Could 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 sucks
• Update on the Carrot Pants Press?
  • Lastest kickstarter was a success!

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