Hey All, hope spirits are remaining high and folks are still able to get in some hacking when they can.

Hackaday Prize 2020 official announcement is forthcoming but a snippet has been dropped and so far sounds like DR could be a fit.

Snippet from the Twitters...

"The #HackadayPrize is coming soon! This year, @hackaday is partnering with nonprofits to tackle challenges in #conversation, #disasterrelief, and #assistivetech. Sign up at http://prize.supplyframe.com to be the first to hear about the launch. Over $200K in prizes!"

And some general LoRa ramblings... arduino-LoRa has seen some updates recently. Version 0.7.1 saw the addition of the txDone callback, this will be great for battery life when sending large packets as once the buffer is filled, the CPU can be put to sleep until sending is done.

Additionally I've been putting in a ton of work on esp32-lora (esp-idf specific driver https://gitlab.com/morganrallen/esp32-lora) and it's been showing a lot of promise on my 3-4 node test network. I've even done some basic meshing, achieving 3 hops!

Happy Hackin'!