Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Author: Nik

  • How Wet Can Ya Get? Let’s Get Muddy!

    How Wet Can Ya Get? Let’s Get Muddy!

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    Div­ing deep­er over at Meteo Sci­en­tif­ic on this plant nurs­ery project, we want­ed to blast out of the gate with some­thing we thought would be incon­tro­vert­ibly use­ful. For a nurs­ery in the coastal desert envi­ron­ment of San Diego (albeit with local microm­e­te­o­ro­log­i­cal con­di­tions), keep­ing track of soil mois­ture in all the pots seemed like a…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Smart Island Ibiza

    Gristle Crüe Call — Smart Island Ibiza

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    Bo from SII came on to talk about the upcom­ing TIPIN Point event in Ibiza in Octo­ber and we worked through some ideas togeth­er. Real­ly help­ful to hear all the dif­fer­ent per­spec­tives, from deploy­ers to hosts to fund managers.  Chat Transcript 10:00:25 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : It’s always pre BO excite­ment!!!10:00:40 From Kevin…

  • How To Measure Endangered Vernal Pool Depth Using The Helium Network

    How To Measure Endangered Vernal Pool Depth Using The Helium Network

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    Over at Meteo Sci­en­tif­ic (the busi­ness unit I start­ed to run an IoT Sen­sor as a Ser­vice, or iSaaS), I’ve been work­ing on a few projects, one of them around mea­sur­ing ver­nal pools in the mountains.  Ver­nal pools are “one of California’s most endan­gered wet­land nat­ur­al com­mu­ni­ties” accord­ing to Dave Hogan, head of the Chap­ar­ral…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Leo Wortley from Future Networks

    Gristle Crüe Call — Leo Wortley from Future Networks

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    Leo Wort­ley from Future Net­works dropped by to walk the Crüe through the lat­est on par­tic­i­pat­ing in the Hivemap­per project. Leo is my kind of entre­pre­neur; scrap­py, hard­work­ing, and inno­v­a­tive. Very cool to see how he’s think­ing about Hivemap­per and what he’s dug up from fol­low­ing the data. Chat Transcript: 10:00:34 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Hel­lo,…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Open AI Explainer

    Gristle Crüe Call — Open AI Explainer

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    Liam Bren­nan walked us through a mind-blow­ing pre­sen­ta­tion on the poten­tial in the Ope­nAI project. From what we write to how we sub­mit queries to how a human can inter­act with the rapid­ly grow­ing dig­i­tal mind, this was an incred­i­bly eye-open­ing call and a hell of a way to kick off 2023.  10:00:32 From Jay M.…

  • People Counter Update: Many Obstacles, Much Learning

    People Counter Update: Many Obstacles, Much Learning

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    Way back in Feb­ru­ary of 2022, I wrote a Heli­um Foun­da­tion grant to deploy peo­ple coun­ters on a trail here in San Diego. The grant was approved, I used the first tranche to buy the devices, and then ran into a series of obsta­cles that are com­mon enough in this world of busi­ness, IoT, and…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Holiday Half

    Gristle Crüe Call — Holiday Half

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    We knocked out a half ses­sion today due to the hol­i­day week. Most­ly this is catch up and then brain­storm­ing a few busi­ness ideas, includ­ing the Hard­share option I’ll explore in 2023. Notes 10:01:14 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Hel­lo every­body, hap­py hol­i­days. <310:03:27 From 619OTA : ya my weath­erxm will say 50mph when its…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Max on 5G & Incentives

    Gristle Crüe Call — Max on 5G & Incentives

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    Max Gold came on today to talk about what to look for with var­i­ous 5G DeWi projects as far as incen­tives, and how to think about your approach to any of these TIPIN projects. A very sharp oper­a­tor, it’s always good to get his per­spec­tive on these. CHAT NOTES 10:02:30 From 619OTA : $80 for 4gb…

  • Using Helium To Automate Your Home

    Using Helium To Automate Your Home

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    This is a project tak­ing you through the basics of how to use the Heli­um LoRaWAN for projects around the home. Relax, we won’t be automat­ing your entire house and acci­den­tal­ly unleash­ing Ter­mi­na­tor. This is just a very sim­ple start into using Helium. At the end, if you fol­low all the direc­tions, you’ll have a…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Charbel from CM7 Group

    Gristle Crüe Call — Charbel from CM7 Group

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    This week we got insight into the approach of Char­bel Mat­ta, head of CM7 Group based out of Lebanon. Char­bel is lead­ing with tech­nol­o­gy edu­ca­tion and dri­ving into West Africa, Geor­gia, Cyprus, and Turkey as well as his home base of Lebanon. Notes/Chat from call 10:02:35 From Eric Jonas : Howdy folks.10:02:42 From Lee (Team Gris­tle…