Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Category: Helium

  • Gristle Crüe — Group Catch Up

    Gristle Crüe — Group Catch Up

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    Checked in with the Crüe on what every­one is doing and we’re a busy hus­tling group! From soil sen­sors to MOBILE deploy­ments to new LNS and announc­ing that Crüe will now have ear­ly access to DePIN State calls, we’re all going hell for leather in this land of giant opportunities! Round­table check in — what…

  • The Solana Transition & The Staking Pie

    The Solana Transition & The Staking Pie

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    Now that Heli­um is on Solana, what’s next? Let’s start with the big ones: All actions are now way faster than they were. Need to trans­fer tokens to some­one? Should take about 30 sec­onds. Want to update info on your Hotspot? Same time. No more wait­ing 40 min­utes or a few hours, or even a…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Alec from Spexigon

    Gristle Crüe Call — Alec from Spexigon

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    Got a chance to get some ear­ly insight into what Spexi is doing as they ramp up for their alpha launch. Super fun to get the run­down from Alec and hear what’s com­ing down the pipe. Take­away? I’ll pro­l­ly pick up a drone. 🙂 10:03:32 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : https://www.spexigon.com/10:04:03 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King)…

  • Let’s Talk NanoTags on Helium

    Let’s Talk NanoTags on Helium

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    One of the core ben­e­fits of a glob­al LoRaWAN net­work like Heli­um is the abil­i­ty to track assets across a large area. Now, track­ing isn’t mag­ic, it’s engi­neer­ing, and it always comes down to fun­da­men­tals: How are you get­ting your loca­tion? How long do you need your track­er to run? How often should it ping?  As…

  • The Transition to Solana — A New Chapter for Helium

    The Transition to Solana — A New Chapter for Helium

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    We’re about to make one of the largest migra­tions ever done on a blockchain, from one L1 to anoth­er. Sure, there have been oth­er large migra­tions, but this is eas­i­ly the largest ever seen in the DePIN space. With that that as our frame­work, let’s talk about the rea­sons for the move, the chal­lenges we…

  • Level Up In A Connected World Using 3D Printing

    Level Up In A Connected World Using 3D Printing

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    One of many extra­or­di­nary aspects of being alive in 2023 is access to resources. In this case, it was access both to a 3D print­er (a Prusa Mk3S+ I assem­bled from the kit) and find­ing design tal­ent to get max­i­mum val­ue of the print­er. Before we get there though, let’s start at the beginning. Some­time…

  • What devices can you use on Helium?

    What devices can you use on Helium?

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    Heli­um opened the door for a lot of us into the world of LoRaWAN, which stands for Long Range Wide Area Net­works. After all the excite­ment of get­ting up Hotspots (tech­ni­cal­ly, “gate­ways”) up to earn HNT for pro­vid­ing cov­er­age, we’re left ask­ing, “What can you do with Helium?” One of the best places to start…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…