🔗 *The full written course* : _ ▶*The YouTube Playlist:* _ WELCOME to our Meshtastic for Makers Workshop, a short 1-hour course where we teach you how to add Meshtastic to your maker projects to wirelessly send data over long ranges. Whether you want to open a gate on the other side of your farm, monitor the water level in a nearby river, or just want to play around with some 21st-century radio communications, this course will give you everything you need to know to get data from point a to point b with Meshtastic, one of the coolest open source, community-orientated projects around. 🔧🔨🧰 Hardware featured in this guide: *Pico H:* _ *LoRa Module:* _ 💡❓ If you have any questions about this content or want to share a project you're working on head over to our *maker forum:* _ 0:00 Intro to the Course 2:11 What is Meshtastic? 7:19 Setting up the Pico 13:04 Channels and Frequencies 21:51 Sending Sensor Data 31:38 Controlling Hardware 44:01 Integrating MQTT 52:11 A Simpler Way to Send Simpler Data 58:59 Outro 🌏🦘 *Core Electronics* is located in the heart of Newcastle, Australia. We're powered by makers, for makers. Drop by if you are looking for: • *Raspberry Pi* _ • *Arduino* _ • *Sparkfun* _ • *Adafruit* _ • *Pololu* _ • *DFRobot* _ The following trademarks are owned by *Core Electronics Pty Ltd:* "Core Electronics" and the Core Electronics logo "Makerverse" and the Makerverse logo "PiicoDev" and the PiicoDev logo "GlowBit" and the GlowBit logo