Gristle Crüe Call — Smart Island Ibiza

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 Wei­de­mann : Haha­ha.
10:00:56 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Nope
10:01:49 From Eric Jonas : Hel­lo every­one.
10:01:58 From Michael Corum : No sound — I’ll get out and back in
10:02:22 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Yo Eric
10:02:32 From Nik Hawks : FOAM is the project.
10:04:35 From Nik Hawks : The TIPIN Point
10:05:02 From Nik Hawks : Mid Octo­ber, Ibiza.
10:05:03 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Nice “TIPIN Point”
10:05:04 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Tipin Point Ibiza Oct 2023 ?
10:05:25 From Nik Hawks : Adven­ture races using IoT and all the TIPIN Projects.
10:05:40 From Nik Hawks : Jet­skis, bars, trea­sure hunts, etc.
10:05:52 From Travis L. Teague : Oh, my!
10:07:01 From Nik Hawks : Smart Island — island is a city, can repeat this across the world.
10:07:03 From Nik Hawks : Novacene
10:08:07 From Nik Hawks : Quick catch up: We’re dis­cussing an event that Bo & his busi­ness part­ner are putting on in Ibiza mid Octo­ber of this year.

The event will be focused on the TIPIN space. Alvaro will call it the Edge­Fi space. 😉
10:09:00 From Jay M. : sor­ry eat­ing lunch
10:09:13 From Michael Corum : eat­ing lunch — soup
10:09:33 From Nik Hawks : Travis, will call on ya next. ?
10:10:02 From Travis L. Teague : I don’t have a mic right now
10:10:11 From Russ : No com­ment
10:11:39 From Travis L. Teague : I like what some com­pa­nies have done w/ buoys… IRNAS, etc… I like the jet-ski gam­ing idea… 😉 (I know kin­da OT)
10:12:13 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) To Nik Hawks(privately) : Me
10:12:23 From Jay M. : cool idea. TONS of lora uses for smart cities. and good point about cities = islands.
10:15:24 From Nik Hawks : Wion­go?
10:16:45 From Nik Hawks : Edge­Fi
10:18:51 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Get­ting high
10:19:18 From Nik Hawks : Day 1 — intro
Day 2 — adven­ture race
Day 3 & 4 — talks pre­sen­ta­tion / tradeshow
10:19:24 From Russ : If you have busi­ness on Fri­day enter­tain­ment on week­end and more biz on Mon­day & Tues­day you can deduct all trav­el and expens­es.
10:19:32 From Eric Jonas : Love it. lol
10:20:15 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Train Hackathon was a hit and Here Be Drag­ons built com­mu­ni­ty and got peo­ple to bond, both gave peo­ple some­thing to talk about.
10:20:58 From Eric Jonas : I was jeal­ous of the train hackathon peo­ple.
10:21:34 From Nik Hawks : Bob­cat, McGill, Track­pac, McGill, LoRa Alliance, etc
10:22:36 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Have Neil, Smoklm, Ack­ers come down
10:22:39 From Nik Hawks : DeWi house, Hackathon house
10:23:50 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : All the bond­ing events
10:24:15 From 619OTA : Local Mee­tups are great
10:24:26 From Travis L. Teague : They called Austin a “super-spread­er” event…
10:25:10 From Eric Jonas : This event is huge. It’s in Feb­ru­ary. I just found out about it. https://www.iotevolutionexpo.com/east/
10:26:27 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Flori­da
10:26:50 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : One event can change your life.
10:26:55 From Eric Jonas : That one is sanc­tioned by the Lora-alliance.
10:28:09 From Travis L. Teague : And there has recent­ly been a ton of LoRaWAN tal­ent “released into the wild”…
10:28:23 From Eric Jonas : Get your Lorawan cer­ti­fi­ca­tion!!!
10:28:36 From Eric Jonas : While its still free. Maybe some day it won’t be.
10:28:36 From Travis L. Teague : And RAK
10:28:42 From Travis L. Teague : A ton
10:29:07 From Nik Hawks : meteoscience.com
10:29:20 From Eric Jonas : 2023 is our year!
10:29:30 From Travis L. Teague : word
10:30:18 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Bo, our biggest wins from Heli­um in the Wild: many small meet ups, Here be Drag­ons (map­ping game), pan­el with speak­ers (Lon­don), train Hackathon.
10:30:33 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : nice
10:31:55 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Ver­nal pools are going to be rad, I’ll post pho­tos. It’s been a big deal here because the ver­nal pools have lit­tle ani­mals in them, and the devel­op­ers just bull­doze them over and don’t care. So they are try­ing to pro­tect them.
10:32:35 From Eric Jonas : I’m look­ing to get a shit-ton of pas­sive income com­ing in reselling Tingkart
10:33:03 From Eric Jonas : a buck per month per device? I can get $50/year per cow from a farmer no prob­lem
10:33:12 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Can you resell Tingkart? I thought he switched to only 100+ sen­sors
10:33:24 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : 1000+ sen­sors, I mean
10:33:26 From Travis L. Teague : This site has a ton of qual­i­ty infor­ma­tion on soil analy­sis… https://www.metergroup.com/en/meter-environment/education-guides/soil-electrical-conductivity-complete-guide-measurements
10:33:44 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Thanks @travis
10:33:53 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Track­Pac has a new white label ser­vice, right?
10:34:14 From Travis L. Teague : Yes, they do
10:36:04 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : What info do you want to col­lect?
10:36:18 From 619OTA : Amer­i­can Psy­cho here. whos got the best busi­ness card
10:36:23 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : haha­ha
10:36:36 From Jay M. : don’t know of a bet­ter alter­na­tive than linkedin
10:36:58 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : @619OTO Mine has embossed type
10:37:07 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : I use to have met­al busi­ness cards for my vip ibiza cleints
10:37:13 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : It was flex­i­ble too
10:37:27 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Telegram was just for chat­ting at the events, orga­niz­ing meet ups
10:37:29 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : Cus­tom made to be bendy, and one sharp side
10:37:48 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : I can help you design a busi­ness card
10:37:55 From Michael Corum : Just some basic OCR soft­ware?
10:38:04 From 619OTA : ive seen ads for them on Insta­gram and twit­ter
10:38:09 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : You have to make notes to, what you chat­ted about, fol­low up etc
10:38:11 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : too
10:38:19 From alvaro­gra­cia : Cam­Card Busi­ness card Read­er
10:38:39 From Michael Corum : If you have an iPhone, there are prob­a­bly 20 or 30 OCR apps avail­able
10:40:45 From Nik Hawks : Zoom call weekly/monthly check in?
10:41:05 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : YAY Eric! Love it.
10:41:21 From alvaro­gra­cia : React­ed to “YAY Eric! Love it.” with ?
10:41:27 From alvaro­gra­cia : Removed a ? reac­tion from “YAY Eric! Love it.“
10:41:31 From alvaro­gra­cia : ?
10:41:31 From Travis L. Teague : Been work­ing on some hard­ware designs of late for low-pow­er stand­alone end-nodes if any­one is inter­est­ed in work­ing on that lev­el
10:41:38 From Eric Jonas : Thank you!
10:42:29 From Travis L. Teague : @Eric, nice! I recent­ly got a watch that mon­i­tors stress lev­el, and I final­ly got it to not think I’n wound quite so tight­ly… 😉
10:42:58 From Eric Jonas : ??
10:43:17 From Travis L. Teague : Yep! Doing the same!
10:43:18 From Nik Hawks : ~50% of any giv­en fleet are offline. Seems like this is com­mon across every­one I’m talk­ing to.
10:43:48 From Nik Hawks : Divest your­self of offline Hotspots.
10:44:14 From Travis L. Teague : Basi­cal­ly, “replace the SD card and it is yours”… 😉
10:44:23 From Michael Corum : Of course your hotspots (Kevin) are caus­ing the Hex4 scale to be 0.6
10:44:38 From Travis L. Teague : Lots of those SD cards have aged out
10:44:58 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : We are about to deploy anoth­er 30 Bob­bies in the next 3 weeks
10:44:58 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Yeah, Jay — I think I will encour­age them to get it back online by offer­ing to trans­fer to them AFTER IoT Token drop
10:45:16 From Jay M. : good call
10:45:34 From Jay M. : but wait, I think they have to be online FOR the token drop
10:45:46 From 619OTA : im doing good. great to see lots of work being done on the denylist. wait­ing for a break in the rain to hike out and swap out sim cards, and need to set­up anoth­er geod­net. would real­ly love to work on a “Sears Cat­a­log” for sen­sors. HMU when you wan­na unbox the heli­um wxm.
10:46:12 From Travis L. Teague : yeah
10:46:28 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Well, right. I will encour­age them to get it online for a while then trans­fer after the drop
10:46:43 From Jay M. : ?
10:47:39 From Travis L. Teague : Foun­da­tion is cut­ting back on Grants right now, cor­rect?
10:48:48 From Travis L. Teague : That would be huge for the net­work… I don’t see it, how­ev­er.
10:51:52 From Russ : I’m good
10:52:40 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : Heli­um are restruc­tur­ing the grants ?
10:53:06 From Jay M. : any­one else receive a hivemap­per dash­cam yet?
10:53:49 From Travis L. Teague : Tiered grants make sense, but I think some folks were hit­ting mile­stones and not get­ting fol­low-up
10:54:33 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Still wait­ing on my hivemap­pers ?
10:54:49 From Nik Hawks : Max has a Hivemap­per and has been going through it.
10:55:10 From Michael Corum : Still wait­ing on Geod­Net upgrade cards and WXM Heli­um box — so much stuff is so very late — I’m not used to that
10:55:17 From Travis L. Teague : I almost think that there could be com­mu­ni­ty driven/funded grants…
10:55:45 From Travis L. Teague : DAO based?
10:55:59 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Nope, all good
10:56:27 From Travis L. Teague : Wise words
10:56:38 From alvaro­gra­cia : Amen ?
10:56:58 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : What are the pro­pos­als in India?
10:57:16 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Also, increas­ing your wealth con­scious­ness
10:57:40 From Travis L. Teague : Just a note, 40% of all Hackster.io entries in Helium’s first con­test were from India, and that was before there was Heli­um sup­port in that region…
10:58:43 From Travis L. Teague : Needs to have BLE sup­port for key onboard­ing. Let’s chat in AF lat­er
10:59:29 From Bo Stew­art (Smart Island Ibiza) : Thanks guys
10:59:30 From Michael Corum : Thanks
10:59:31 From Travis L. Teague : Thanks, folks! be well, do good.
10:59:34 From Lee (Team Gris­tle King) : Thanks ya’ll <3
10:59:45 From Kevin Wei­de­mann : Thanks, yo
10:59:47 From Eric Jonas : Great call fam! Let’s dis­cord about plan­ning oth­er calls for check­ing in!