For the fourth year in a row, RAKwireless is participating in CNX Software’s Giveaway Week, and this year, the company is offering the Blues.ONE IoT development kit with LoRaWAN, LTE-M, and NB-IoT connectivity and 500MB of cellular data through the Blues NoteCard.
The devkit can be used to prototype or develop IoT devices for industrial automation and asset-tracking applications and relies on the WisBlock modular IoT prototyping system with the RAK13102 WisBlock Blues Notecarrier, the Blues NoteCard, a WisBlock Base Board, and a WisBlock Core module.
Blues.ONE kit content:
- RAK4631 WisBlock Core Module based on
- Nordic Semi nRF52840 Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller @ 64 MHz with 1 MB Flash, 256 KB RAM, Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 protocol stack
- Semtech SX1262 LoRa Transceiver with LoRaWAN 1.0.2 protocol stack
- RAK19007 WisBlock Base Board with 4x sensor slots, 1x IO slot, a USB Type-C port, a rechargeable battery connector, and a solar panel connector
- RAK13102 WisBlock IO module with M.2 connector for Blues Notecard V1 or V2
- Blues Notecard NBGL-500
- Supports LTE-M, NB-IoT and GSM networks
- Bundled with 500MB of cellular data valid for up to 10 years. No cellular subscriptions, SIM fees, or monthly minimums apply.
- Global coverage for LTE-M and/or NB-IoT
- External LTE antenna – GPS antenna, LoRa antenna, BLE antenna
- USB-C to USB-A cable
The development kit is programmable with the Arduino IDE and a location tracker firmware with source code and instructions to get started can be found on GitHub.
To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). 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 draw.
- Shipping
- RAKwireless will handle shipping, so the winner does not have anything to pay.
- The giveaway is global and open to all, except for readers based in Thailand since RAKwireless is offering a second Blues.ONE devkit on CNX Software Thailand, and you should apply there if you’d like to have the kit shipped to Thailand.
- 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 to all!
The Blues.ONE devkit can also be purchased on the RAKwireles store for $106 and up depending on whether you need the optional enclosure and/or battery included in the kit
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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This LoRaWAN and cellular IoT kit from RAKwireless attracted 180 entrants.
Random.org selected #59. That would be OldCrow. Congratulations! I’ll contact you shortly by email to put you in contact with RAKWireless.
Hello from Brazil !!
Gday from Australia
Greetings from the United States!
Greetings from Canada
Hello from Edmonton, Canada!
Greetings from Vietnam
The perfect extension to my emerging wireless kingdom here in my corner of the United States! Thanks so much for accepting my submission.
Greetings from Sweden
Hello from the USA! Good timing, I’ve got LoRaWAN project coming up soon!
Greetings from Finland
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Vancouver, Canada. 🍁🤞
Australia
Hi from Pakistan
Hello from Romania!
Here from USA, thanks for everything you do!
Hello from Sweden
Greetings from Slovak Republic !
Saludos from Spain!
Bulgaria, I am able to receive from the USA too since I have friends there. This would be great for programming for Meshtastic
Hi, greetings from Poland. I am trying to develop a mesh of Meshtastic devices in my area, would be nice to add nrf based node to the mesh as the ESP32 ones do not perform as good. Regards, KB
Bonjour de France
From India
United Kingdom. I have been laid off and looking for a new career in IoT and agriculture technology and this will help in this.
Hi from Belgium
Greetings from Poland.
Netherlands
Hello from South Africa
hello, from france
Hello from Germany
France, Thanks for all your contributions on this magnificent website!
Greetings from Belgium!
I have so many plans! [Rubs hands together in Australian]
hello from France
Count me in, from the Netherlands
This is really cool.
Regards from France.
Greetings from Latvia!
Hi there!
Greetings from Latvia
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Hello from Nigeria!
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Hello from the United Kingdom
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Winning this would RAK🤘!
❤️ From the Netherlands
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hello from France
Hi, from Bulgaria!
Greetings from France!
Üdvözlet Magyarországról! 🙂
Hello from France
Greetings from UK
Guten Morgen from United Kingdom !
Currently in early prototype stages of a project using nb-iot, have also been asked of we can support lora so your kit looks very interesting. Based in UK. Fingers crossed 🤞
Poland
Hi From PT!!!!
Hello from France ! Would love this !
Greetings from Poland.
Hello from England!
Germany
Hello everyone from Austria!
United States
Hello from Finland!
Wanting to learn and teach from UNITED STATES
France
Cheers from Estonia!
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Hello from Portugal!
Hi From PT!
Greetings from Germany
Belgium
Looks good
Canada. Great contest.
RAK rocks!
Hello from North East of UK
Greetings from Spain
Hello from Vietnam !!!
Italy! Ciao!!
Greetings from Portugal!
Good luck everybody (but I want to win!!). Greetings from Spain
Hello from UK =) lovely looking kit
Hi Portugal
Hello from the USA
USA!
Hello from Penang, Malaysia.
Just use Rak7391 and rak3172 for a customer project, very easy to learn and support was very nice and efficient. I would love to use again, thanks to rakwireless for such a wonderful product.
Greetings from Russia!
Greetings from Poland!
Greetings from Italy, it is one thing not however to have a lot of hardware involved during Giveaway Week event!
Hey well done guys, cheers from Spain!!
Shanmukha Sai from India
Greetings from Indonesia
USA
Hi from Germany!
USA
Hey, Bulgaria here!
We are building some hardware products with Rust. I would love to tinker with this dev kit and show the sleekness of the language.
Australia
Hello From France ! Thanks cnx team !
Hello from Colorado, USA! Perfect timing as my interest in LoRa and decentralized IOT has been quickly growing 🙂
Greetings from Germany!
Hello from FR
Greetings from Poland
Germany – LoRa is something I’d like to test
Greetings from Sardinia, Italy!
Hello from Colombia!
Greetings from Germany on a sad day!
Australia1
Hi from USA.
Greetings from Germany!
Greetings from the UK. What a wonderful prize
Thank you from France 🥰
Lora gretings from Denmark
Australia
Greetings from Germany!
Greetings from France !
USA unfortunately
G’Day from Australia
Looks interesting! Best regards from Denmark
Serbia
G’day from Australia
Always be proud of where your from.
Learn and build and break it and fix it . Make it better then break it and make it better again
I’m from Australia and love developing with micropython. This board would be great to add support for there!
Canada
USA, thanks for the giveaway!
Hello from Romania!
Hi from Iran.
Hi, I’m from Malaysia. Thanks.
Hi, I’m from Malaysia.
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Good day to you (from France)!
Hello from Netherlands!
Very cool giveaway!
Hello from Japan.
Regards from USA!
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Hi from Thailand!
USA
Heslo.I’m here.Czechia.
Hello from Israel!
G’Day from Australia.
From Spain
All the best everyone!
Hello from India!
Sweden. Thanks for doing this
Hello from Bulgaria !
Hello from New Zealand
Hello from USA
Hello from Kazakhstan
Hello from India
Hello from Malaysia!
from india
Gday from Australia
Greetings from Brazil! What about having one of those on the amazon forest? 🙂
Greetings from the United States!
I have never tasted this kind of device before, maybe i would get this one for my future project.
Greet from Indonesia
Hello from USA,
I try to read the email from here every day:)
Greetings from Poland.
Hello from Russia!
Hello from UK
Hello from Germany.
Hello from Bosnia and Herzegovina. Please count me in for this contest.
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Greetings from USA!
Count me in
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United States
Hello from Italy
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Hello from Slovakia
United States. In for 1.
Hello from the US. Looking forward to learning about LoRaWAN!