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…
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…