I recently drove up to participate in the USA Hike & Fly’s Ojai race on October 31st, both as an athlete and a provider of tracking with Helium. The athlete side was fun, but expensive. I landed in the bushes and tore up my wing …
Helium is a rapidly growing and wild ecosystem. Like any other new ecosystem, things are constantly changing, and the main sources of information most new users rely on (Explorer and the Helium app) can be up 48 hours behind. That means when you check your …
There’s almost no good reason to use the CLI (Command Line Interface) wallet for a normal person, but…not everyone who gets into Helium is normal. If, like me, you’re faced with having to use it, this series of instructions might help. This is NOT written …
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Short version: Use a low gain antenna, report your location and antenna gain accurately. If you’re in the US, this isn’t a big deal, as our radios pump out enough power to get excellent range even with a low gain antenna. If you’re in a …
40-60 Hotspots. Wait, you want more, and you want to know how I came up with that (with help)? Start by reading my post on PoC cycles, otherwise you’ll be missing some key points. Done? Great! Let’s start with the worst case for HNT earnings: …
Our pilot project is complete, and boy have we learned a ton from this one! While many are still focusing on earning HNT for Helium Hotspot deployments, the obvious move for those of us interested in longevity is actually USING the Network. Over the course …
I got into Helium accidentally. I was looking for a way to find and communicate with other paragliders out back of beyond. I had participated in a Search and Rescue for a well known paraglider out in remote Nevada at the end of summer 2020. …
Hotspotty started as a way for Daniel Andrade (@spillere on Discord) to manage the growing fleet of Helium Hotspots he was rolling out together with Maxime Goossens and Alexis Argent. In the beginning we had a tiny script that would send our daily rewards to …
Ok, so you just found Helium and are wondering what to do next? Let’s walk through the whole system so you’ll know what to do and what NOT to do. We’ll go through the ecosytem of Helium, the incentive of HNT, explain Helium Wallets as …
Seeing other deployments is one of the fastest ways to get great ideas (and avoid costly mistakes!) I thought it’d be useful to the community to share a little more detail about our Helium Hotspot deployments. Here’s your chance to shine! What hotspot are you …
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