Macrofab Engineering Podcast

Why Mesh Networking Matters – Brandon Satrom Brandon Satrom Developer Advocate for Particle, an IoT platform company The founder of Carrot Pants Press, a company dedicated to educating makers On the MacroFab Engineering Podcast Episode Number 122, Brandon discussed the Particle Photon and built an IoT breathalyzer with Parker live on the podcast What is currently distracting Brandon now? Why mesh networking matters Existing mesh networking standards Thread/OpenThread and why Particle built OpenThread into 3rd gen devicesWhat is OpenThread? Mesh Christmas Tree project 5 device network with a gateway and 4 edge devices Particle Blog detailing more about the project One edge device publishes multicast messages to all other nodes, which light up neopixel strips when those messages are received on each device The goal was to see how low latency UDP-based mesh messaging was Researching theory around "the color of sound" and added a mode to the firmware that converts the frequency of a played note into a co