John Park's Workshop Live 10/15/26

On Tuesdays, I've got [laughs] ...

Dan said, "Or cords/chords.

No, no strings attached." There are some cords.

Uh, if you tune in on Tuesdays at noon Pacific Coast Time, or 3:00 East Coast Time, that is the new time and, and that shifted about a month ago and people have started to get used to it, myself included, uh, you'll see something like this going on.

It is the Product Pick of the Week show.

And on to that, on that show, I have a product pick that is usually at 50% off.

We've usually stashed 50 or of a hun- or 100 of them, or more if we just have, have more.

Uh, but we usually aim for a, a stash of 50 of them.

So they're there, you can get 'em, you can, uh, get a discount on them and see a little bit of a demo.

Here is a one-minute recap from this week.

[upbeat music] The week this week is the Adafruit RP2040 Feather with an RFM95 LoRa module in the 900 MHz range, using Meshtastic inside of CircuitPython.

So there's a Mesh Fruit library that allows you to use Meshtastic.

They're used to access the open source, decentralized Meshtastic or Mesh Core networks to send packet data.

I'm just gonna send a message from a different, entirely different node.

Okay, so I've just sent that out to this public channel, and you'll see on my Feather, we just received that.

So it tells me the node that I received it from, which is, uh, this one right here, has a little identifier on it, a little MAC address, basically.

And then you can see, "Hello Meshtest" just showed up.

It is the Feather RP2040 LoRa RFM95.

[upbeat music] That indeed is what it is.

Uh, all right.