The RockBLOCK Mk2 is one awesome module. It literally houses everything you need to send and receive data from anywhere on the planet (Iridium satellite modem, compact antenna and power circuitry) in a module smaller than the Raspberry Pi (the de facto measuring implement for these kind of things) at an equally micro price of £159/€199/$269 – available to buy online from Rock…
Remote Controlled Weather Station
Today we’ll be creating a remote controlled satellite weather station using a Raspberry Pi, a temperature sensor and a RockBLOCK. The envisioned application would be a weather station in a really remote location (i.e. outside of mobile/cellular coverage) – maybe in the middle of the desert, the jungle, or even the arctic – sending its data back to some…
Rock 7 Core for RockBLOCK users
The Rock 7 Core system, is the online management system for your RockBLOCK. You can view messages sent from your RockBLOCK, send new messages as well as update your Endpoints for message delivery. It’s all very simple, but here is a quick overview… After logging in you’ll be presented with a navigation menu on the left hand…
3D Printed Raspberry Pi X RockBLOCK enclosure
This is a guide to making a 3D printed case etc
Idiots guide to Iridium
The Iridium satellite constellation is a mesh of low earth orbit satellites that move rapidly across the sky, providing truly global coverage anywhere on the planet. With a suitable satellite modem (like the Iridium 9602) that’s in the RockBLOCK, we can send and receive small amounts of data (a few hundred bytes) to/from your embedded system or computer. Iridium is used…
Rock7 Core – Endpoints
Following on from the Remote Controlled Weather Station project we’re going to investigate how data gets from your RockBLOCK to your web-server and vice versa. After reading this guide you’ll be fully armed to implement programatic two-way communications to/from your RockBLOCK. Part 1 – Receiving Messages from your RockBLOCK Data is sent from your RockBLOCK to one of the 66…
Merry Christmas from Makersnake
Hopefully Santa brings you that 3D printer, Raspberry Pi or Arduino that you’ve been asking for…