Back around 2020 a new word began entering the vocabulary of radio nerds around the world – LoRaWAN, or Long Range WAN – a neat protocol which sends small amounts of data large distances using tiny amounts of power. As the years went along the technology kept improving and while I was aware of it, I was a busy person and hadn’t looked too deeply into the technology, despite being a self-professed radio nerd! Fastforward to mid-2025 and I found myself dragged into a LoRa project when a friend needed me to make introductions to a tower site owner in Continue Reading
Getting to Kaohsiung and Taiwan first impressions
This is the first in a multi-part series about my 2026 visit to Taiwan. I’ve tagged them all with the taiwan tag so they should be easy to find! For over a year now I’ve been dating a girl from Taiwan; it’s an interesting long-distance relationship since she actually lives in London (and we met in Amsterdam – one of these days I’ll write about that) but we make it work, and I’ve been out to visit her in the UK a few times and she’s come to Victoria a lot. Throughout our courtship, I had come to learn a Continue Reading