Category: Helium
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Gristle Crüe Call — Holiday Half
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…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Max on 5G & Incentives
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…
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Using Helium To Automate Your Home
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…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Charbel from CM7 Group
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…
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After Action Report — Helium In The Wild
From Nov 4th through 17th of 2022, Gristle King Inc conducted the Helium In The Wild tour on behalf of the Helium Foundation. This idea was conceived, developed, and supported by Nik Hawks, Joey Hiller and Scott Sigel to help get boots on the ground off US soil and demonstrate the Helium Foundation’s commitment to…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Miroslav from Heliotics
After meeting Miroslav in Lisbon I knew I wanted him to share his experience and knowledge with the Crüe. He’s built a business on Helium, running it out of Slovakia but servicing the larger region. His past few years of building up a business on LoRaWAN provided invaluable experience that he shared with us; another…
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Reports from the Field — Helium In The Wild, Hackathon Train
“The job right now isn’t to make IoT easy. It’s to make it work”. As I look across the Helium ecosystem in early December of 2022, I’m starting to see the emergence of working businesses built on Helium. Baxus may be the most recent example; a company tracking all the conditions of items as they move…
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Gristle Crüe Call — Abhay from Helium Foundation
Abhay Kumar, CEO of the Helium Foundation, jumped on the Gristle Crüe call today to walk us through both his journey, the challenges ahead, and some of the things he thinks are most exciting coming down the pipe. Very cool to get to hear it straight from the horse’s mouth! 10:01:15 From Lee (Team Gristle…
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Reports From The Field: Helium In The Wild — Lisbon
On Nov 2nd, my bride Lee & I set off to 4 cities in Europe to conduct a Helium Foundation project called “Helium In The Wild” with three goals. First, to see how Helium was being used in the wild. Obviously sensor usage isn’t huge yet, and lots of b.s. has been thrown around the interwebz…
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Gristle Crüe Call — GEODnet & Parley Labs Q + A
Mike from GEODnet came on to fill us in on the latest, from remote mining to hardware upgrades. Very cool udpates! Bryan from Parley Labs dropped by in the last quarter to talk about the 5G & IoT work they’re doing, including their rev share and financing programs. CHAT TRANSCRIPT 10:02:12 From 619OTA : what…