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Published inMay 2022
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Sai Yamanoor
Sai Yamanoor
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Sai Yamanoor

Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his undergraduate work in mechatronics engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India and his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve the quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures, such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.
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Srihari Yamanoor
Srihari Yamanoor
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Srihari Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He is certified in SolidWorks, simulation, sustainable design, PDM as well as in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His has a wide range of interests, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, photography to gardening and ecology.
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Interfacing a Sigfox module

In this section, we will discuss interfacing a Sigfox module with the Raspberry Pi Pico. Before we get started, let's take a quick look at Sigfox.

What is Sigfox?

Sigfox is a type of Low-Power Wide Area Network (LPWAN) that is operated by a French company of the same name. Sigfox radios have a range of about 10–30 km, and the network operator restricts the total number of transmissions to 140 messages per day with each message restricted to 12 bytes. This type of network is suitable for battery-powered wireless nodes deployed at scale. Sigfox typically operates in unlicensed ISM radio bands ISM refers to Industrial, Scientific and Medical bands. As the acronym suggests, it is meant to be used in those applications without a license. In the US, it is typically 915 MHz. You can learn more about Sigfox here: https://build.sigfox.com/sigfox.

Sigfox's future

At the time of writing this chapter, Sigfox filed for bankruptcy protection...

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Sai Yamanoor

Sai Yamanoor is an embedded systems engineer working for a private startup school in the San Francisco Bay Area, where he builds devices that help students achieve their full potential. He completed his undergraduate work in mechatronics engineering from Sri Krishna College of Engineering and Technology, Coimbatore, India and his graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh PA. His interests, deeply rooted in DIY and open software and hardware cultures, include developing gadgets and apps that improve the quality of life, Internet of Things, crowdfunding, education, and new technologies. In his spare time, he plays with various devices and architectures, such as the Raspberry Pi, Arduino, Galileo, Android devices and others. Sai has earlier published a book titled Raspberry Pi Mechatronics Projects.
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Srihari Yamanoor

Srihari Yamanoor is a mechanical engineer, working on medical devices, sustainability, and robotics in the San Francisco Bay Area. He completed his undergraduate studies in mechanical engineering from PSG College of Technology, Coimbatore, India and graduate studies in mechanical engineering at Stanford University. He is certified in SolidWorks, simulation, sustainable design, PDM as well as in quality and reliability engineering and auditing. His has a wide range of interests, from DIY, crowdfunding, AI, travelling, photography to gardening and ecology.
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