12 Jul

This week, I used the painlessMesh library to create a very simple mesh network of three nodes. I wrote the code to resemble how I believe our blimps/ RoCo robots should use the network once they are automated: they send instructions to one another that is interpreted in a switch statement, these in...

03 Jul

This week I wanted to test the performance of different protocols and mesh-networks. The two biggest characteristics I wanted to determine were range and throughput. My first test was the ESP-Now protocol, which is a peer-to-peer communication protocol near 2.4 GHz. Outside, with a line of sight, I...

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