[57north-discuss] Locating Radio Beacons

[Dave Hibberd]

Interesting indeed - I'd be curious to learn more, and if/how it differs
from the "popular" subhobby within amateur radio, radio direction
finding (much like orienteering but with yagis instead of compasses). 

I guess most of it depends on the definition of beacon, but it sounds
like it could be groovy fun :)

If we pull in edinburgh folks and I can pull in some glasgow chaps, we
could be looking at a fun cross-hackerspace project to test the
collaborative waters.

Hx

On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 03:11:29PM +0100, Martin Evans wrote:
> It's really hard to triangulate using iBeacons as the signal can vary quite a lot. I've done some work with an Arduino and a BLE Mini as a central device and am able to connect and read the rssi values from BLE devices.
> 
> Martin
> 
> 
> On 22 May 2014, at 14:08, Marcel H. <maco at blava.net> wrote:
> 
> > Although a Edinburgh's Hacklab member and not a 57North member, I am
> > currently very much looking into iBeacons / LibreBeacon.org to do
> > exactly the same thing.
> > 
> > Marcel
> > 
> > On Thu, May 22, 2014 at 1:27 PM, Iain R. Learmonth <irl at fsfe.org> wrote:
> >> Dave,
> >> 
> >> I have someone in the lab who wants to look at locating radio beacons
> >> through triangulation. This will possibly have mesh aspects to it where the
> >> beacons themselves are also trying to place the beacons around them and
> >> communicate back to a base station.
> >> 
> >> I imagine you will have helpful knowledge here. Is this something you'd be
> >> interested in?
> >> 
> >> The guy's name is Kola and he is subscribed to the 57north-discuss list.
> >> 
> >> Iain.
> >> 
> >> P.S. If anyone else on the list may have useful knowledge, you should also
> >> chime in.
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