The second prize of CNX Software’s giveaway week does not come directly from me, but instead, RAKwireless accepted to offer a sample to add to the event: Wisblock Kit 2.
The kit is a LoRa-based GPS tracker that comes with a sensor to detect location change every set time interval, and ships with a solar panel, although you could also offer it with a set of batteries (not included).
Since I’ve never written about this kit, let’s go through the main building blocks:
- RAK5005-O base board
- Slots for 1x WisBlock Core MCU module, up to 4x WisBlock Sensor modules, and one WisBlock IO module
- I2C, UART, GPIO’s and analog input accessible with solder contacts
- Debugging – USB debug port
- Misc- 2x user LED’s, reset button
- Supports 3 different power supply sources
- 1 slot for WisBlock Core MCU
- RAK4631 Wisblock Core module
- WiSoC – Nordic nRF52840 with Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 connectivity
- LoRa
- Sentech SX1262 transceiver
- LoRaWan 1.0.2 protocol stack (supports Class A & C)
- RAK1904 accelerator module with STMicro LIS3DH acceleration sensor
- RAK1910 GPS module based on U-Blox MAX-7Q GNSS module with support for GPS/QZSS and GLONASS; 2.5m accuracy, 10 Hz update rate
You’ll find documentation on the RAK store where it is sold for $77.28 (also on Aliexpress), as well as an Arduino sketch sample on Github.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say. If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:
- Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
- Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
- Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
- Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
- I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
- Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the daw.
- Shipping will be handled by RAKwireless, and I’ll forward the winner’s email to arrange shipment.
- I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.
Good luck!
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Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.
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Mexico
May the Randomness be with me.
Taiwan
United States
Vietnam
Australia. Looks like a cool project!
Australia. We have lots of sun to power this kit!
Thailand
Romania
USA
United States
Greece
India
India
Philippines
USA
This would be awesome for expanding the range on my robot car project.
Hey,
what is the boxes name? Where can i buy this box — for other projects.
Thx.
Singapore
US Thanks for the invite
Belgium
Looks very interesting!
Germany
Romania
Germany
Germany. Thanks.
India.
May the odds be ever in my favor!
New Zealand
Poland. Sorry for the country missing at the first comment.
Germany
Sweden
Spain
Latvia
France
Netherlands
France
Denmark
Poland
india
gimee da meter hahah..
France
Australia
Let’s help the farmers.
UK
New Zealand
Been waiting to test a GPS Lora setup
Belgium
Serbia
Poland
Switzerland,
Looks really interesting, but don’t know what to do with that at the moment.
Sweden
Netherlands
USA.
Interesting produce.
poland
Serbia
austria. thank you!
France
Spain. Hope to get one!
France
Switzerland
Turkey
Can you give an example ? Why we use this device and how we use ? is this a gps tracker device its looking big box in published picture. If device is working what conditions ? Can you describe some detail ?
Thank you
Hungary
Hey from France ! This could actually be a great backup positionning system on a boat (mooring alert) plus a LoRa message upload gw (thinking of plenty use cases)
Belgium
Finland
France
Great blog with interesting articles
Italy
Spain.
Thanks for your info.
France !
Nice giveaway
Netherlands, 🙂
Hungary
france
great competition.
Poland
After a long time, I decided to take part. 🙂
Hello from German
The Netherlands
Italy
Russia
Belgium
Looks really interesting to get into LoRa
Slovakia
Poland
España
France
Let’s hope !
Russia
Indonesia, wkwkwk
Poland
Thanks a lot for you great site and news coverage.
Romania
Latvia
Portugal
United States
India
Japan
Solar + Lora + GPS + nRF52 > Netflix!
from Vietnam
Poland
Netherlands
USA!
United Kingdom.
Canada
UNited States
Greece
You are an invaluable source of information for all of us.
France
USA
Portugal
Czech Republic
India
Greece
Brazil.
RAKwireless is da Best!
United States
Germany
United States
Brazil. Thanks!!
Brazil. Cool product.
Brazil
France
United States
France
Croatia
Finland
From Germany with love!
South Africa
New Zealand – looks like a neat project.
Canada
USA
Yet another thing I’d love to play with…
Romania
Spain here.
Plenty of sun to take the best of that solar panel!
Poland
Poland
Slovenia
I definitely would have a good project for this kit. Greetings from Brazil.
Ukraine
Turkey. Good luck everyone!
Israel
USA
I almost bought this directly from RAK, but shipping was high, thx!
USA
USA Spin wheel
Never won before, so may the luck be with me this time 🙂
Italy
Taiwan
Australia
Spain
Germany
United States
United States. Let’s get mining!
Thailand. Looks interesting!
May the odds be in my favor
United States
Brazil. Good luck everyone!
Brazil. Good luck everyone!
New Zealand
USA
PAKISTAN
IN SHA ALLAHA I WILL BE THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY
Me too
Perú
Germany
your country
France
Italy
Great setup !
Germany.
United States
May the farce be with you 🙂
VietNam
Malaysia
Perfect for tracking vehicles up the hill to my guesthouse
Serbia
Poland
Poland
India
France, Let’s make this a TinyGS station !
Portugal
United Kingdom – England
Have a great day 🙂
Sweden
Latvia
Serbia
Ukraine.
Austria. Nice product.
Ukraine
Portugal – a lot of sun to power these!
Jordan
Germany
Hungary
Switzerland
Hope to be a lucky winner!
Best regards to the sponsor.
Poland
Portugal
Poland
Hope to learn how to use this 🙂
Ukraine
USA
India
Ireland
I’m from Mexico
USA
usa
France
Thnx so much 😉
Brazil
The Netherlands
Can it also harvest rain?
183 comments. Mr. Random in action… and the winner is #84.
That would be Chida. Conrgatulations! I’ll put you in contact with RAKwireless