Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Author: Nik

  • Wingbits Optimization: Graphs1090 Plus

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    Ok, so ya caught the Wing­bits bug and are will­ing to play the game just to see how good you can get? It’s fun to mess around with the Tar1090 tool (which I’ve cov­ered in a pre­vi­ous post) and see the pret­ty pic­tures, but…what about them numbers? Pret­ty clear­ly here we’re see­ing that Set­up 2…

  • Wingbits For The Advanced User: Tar1090

    Wingbits For The Advanced User: Tar1090

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    I’ve writ­ten about the basics of Wing­bits in a recent post; if you haven’t read that yet or you’re new to the project, take about 7 min­utes and read through it; it’ll make the rest of this much eas­i­er to understand.  This is the first in a few of the “Advanced User Series” posts on…

  • A Rough Guide to Wingbits

    A Rough Guide to Wingbits

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    I’ve been watch­ing Wing­bits for a while now. They’re a new DePIN reward­ing you for track­ing com­mer­cial and pri­vate planes, and some parts of the project remind me of the ear­ly days of Heli­um, back when I wrote the orig­i­nal Rough Guide for Heli­um. Wing­bits is a project that allows you to choose your hard­ware…

  • How To Use The Helium Bridge

    How To Use The Helium Bridge

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    So you’ve read the piece on the Heli­um Bridge and you want to use one to bring your favorite non-LoRaWAN sen­sor data onto the Heli­um Net­work? Rad! Let’s start off with the cur­rent lim­i­ta­tions, just so you don’t get all hot and both­ered then real­ize what you wan’t ain’t doable yet. Right now, it works “out…

  • The Helium Bridge — A Thousand New Sensors

    The Helium Bridge — A Thousand New Sensors

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    Once you’ve built the world’s largest LoRaWAN net­work, the next step is clear­ly to use it. Still, it can be hard to use a net­work that does­n’t yet have an absolute boat­load of sen­sors ready for it.  Part of this is the hard­ware lag cycle. It takes time to build hard­ware, and we’re just now get­ting…

  • How To Understand The GEODNET Token System

    How To Understand The GEODNET Token System

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    A com­mon ques­tion with any DePIN project is: Where do all the tokens go? In GEODNET, 35% of all tokens emit­ted go to those of us deploy­ing GEODNET base sta­tions and pro­vid­ing cov­er­age. But what about the rest of the tokens? Where do they go? How many are there? How do you KNOW? Let’s start with…

  • How To Maximize GEODNET Staking

    How To Maximize GEODNET Staking

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    How can you make the most of the new GEODNET stak­ing pro­gram? Stak­ing allows any­one to sig­nal that they want a min­er deployed in a cer­tain area. Stak­ing also offers larg­er rewards for both the stak­er and min­ers than a nor­mal deploy­ment. I’ll assume for now you know what GEODNET is; if not, hit this…

  • How To Use A Helium Integration

    How To Use A Helium Integration

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    Let’s start with the basics: What the heck is a Heli­um Inte­gra­tion, and why would you even need one?  An “inte­gra­tion” is what allows the raw data that’s com­ing from your Heli­um sen­sors to be actu­al­ly used. Whether that’s show­ing a dash­board of soil mois­ture, or tem­per­a­ture, or if you’re track­ing the num­ber of peo­ple who…

  • How To Use Helium for Parking Sensors

    How To Use Helium for Parking Sensors

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    One of the great oppor­tu­ni­ties of a ubiq­ui­tous wire­less net­work like Heli­um’s LoRaWAN is in mon­i­tor­ing park­ing. While park­ing may seem slight­ly less inter­est­ing than day-old oat­meal to most of us, the more you know about park­ing the more you won­der why we don’t pay far more atten­tion to it. Let’s start with the busi­ness cas­es…

  • Sunsetting Helium Console — The End of an Era

    Sunsetting Helium Console — The End of an Era

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    As any project pro­gress­es from a good idea to first imple­men­ta­tions and moves clos­er and clos­er to com­mer­cial via­bil­i­ty, the nature of access to the project will change. Typ­i­cal­ly you start off by giv­ing away access for free, just so peo­ple can try the thing out. Heli­um’s LoRaWAN (as all DePIN projects do) went a…