Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
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Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
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Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#2Great choice of outer hardware. My old E63 was the last phone I had where I could legitimately touch type, and I still miss it.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#3> The schematics and PCB layout have not been released, so the OTG messenger is not an open-source hardware project yet, but Trevor says it may become open source if there’s enough positive interest from the community.
My disappointment is immeasurable.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#4What is the licensing issue with this? It is like Ham radio license ? Something else?
India has started banning drones outright and walkie talkies are banned unless you have prior police verification. I think they demand that radio exam, Morse and all but im not sure.
Where does this fit? Is it like cellular connection?
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#5What is the licensing issue with this? It is like Ham radio license ? Something else? India has started banning drones outright and walkie talkies are banned unless you have prior police verification. I think they demand that radio exam, Morse and all but im not sure. Where does this fit? Is it like cellular connection?
There is no licensing issue, you can use LoRa without a licence (like Wi-Fi) in a few bands depending on the country / zone you're in (915MHz, 868MHz, 433MHz…). You have to respect duty cycles restrictions (not emit more than 1% of the time, for example) though if you're not listening to avoid collisions.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#6Great choice of outer hardware. My old E63 was the last phone I had where I could legitimately touch type, and I still miss it.
I had the e61. Also a lovely piece of hardware. Lasted a long time until the feature phones tarted dying.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#7> The schematics and PCB layout have not been released, so the OTG messenger is not an open-source hardware project yet, but Trevor says it may become open source if there’s enough positive interest from the community. My disappointment is immeasurable.
"enough positive interest from the community". I don't understand that. How much work is it to release? If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better. However with hardware, you generally need to get it somewhat right or it doesn't work at all and you can't fix it quick.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#8Great choice of outer hardware. My old E63 was the last phone I had where I could legitimately touch type, and I still miss it.
I had the e61. Also a lovely piece of hardware. Lasted a long time until the feature phones tarted dying.
I had a Singapore version of the E61, which included WiFi (unlike the US versions of the E61 where I live), and cosmetically was all-silver color (no odd-looking gray buttons).
It was such nice physical hardware, one could type messages very rapidly. It was also very durable. (I bounced it off pavement 2-3 times, and literally only got a few scratches.)
I would love a solid trustworthy opensource Linux handheld in pretty much that exact hardware physical keyboard design. I'm primarily interested in WiFi, but (isolated) cellular would also be nice, and maybe LoRa transceiver hardware would come in handy someday.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#9> The schematics and PCB layout have not been released, so the OTG messenger is not an open-source hardware project yet, but Trevor says it may become open source if there’s enough positive interest from the community. My disappointment is immeasurable.
"enough positive interest from the community". I don't understand that. How much work is it to release? If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better. However with hardware, you generally need to get it somewhat right or it doesn't work at all and you can't fix i…
> If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better.
I think hardware is the same way. There's also protocols to fabrication that may be difficult to explain. You have support requests and emails wasting your time.
> "enough positive interest from the community". I don't understand that.
I read it as opposed to negative interest.
> If I make software I can see that if I hacked a giant crap of code together that I would want to clean it up before releasing it to public and save my self the embarrassment knowing I could do it better.
You should not be made to feel ashamed for giving something away for free. You should not even suggest that this should be acceptable. It isn't. People who offer comments on code beyond how to add material functionality (i.e. more inputs), make it faster, or decrease the code size are trash humans. Delete and ignore.
Re: Nokia E63 phone converted into LoRa messenger
#10> The schematics and PCB layout have not been released, so the OTG messenger is not an open-source hardware project yet, but Trevor says it may become open source if there’s enough positive interest from the community. My disappointment is immeasurable.
The author doesn't owe you anything though.