Gristle King - A Guide to DePIN

Category: Helium

  • 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…

  • After Action Report — Helium In The Wild

    After Action Report — Helium In The Wild

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    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…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Miroslav from Heliotics

    Gristle Crüe Call — Miroslav from Heliotics

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    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…

  • Reports from the Field — Helium In The Wild, Hackathon Train

    Reports from the Field — Helium In The Wild, Hackathon Train

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    “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…

  • Gristle Crüe Call — Abhay from Helium Foundation

    Gristle Crüe Call — Abhay from Helium Foundation

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    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…

  • Reports From The Field: Helium In The Wild — Lisbon

    Reports From The Field: Helium In The Wild — Lisbon

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    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…