# Monthly Maker Meet: TTN & LoRa (22 Oct 2018)

> Our first Monthly Maker Meet: TTN & LoRa held at Core Electronics was a vibrant success! A big thank you to everyone that came along. We covered a range of topi

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Newcastle & Lake Macquarie](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/newcastle-lakemac/)
- Author: Core Electronics
- Published: 2018-10-25
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/newcastle-lakemac/post/monthly-maker-meet-ttn-lora-22-oct-2018

Our first **Monthly Maker Meet: TTN & LoRa** held at Core Electronics was a vibrant success! A big **thank you** to everyone that came along. We covered a range of topics, though more importantly, we stepped through a practical project "from go to whoa". This time around it was how to build your own TTN Mapper device and use it as a TTN/LoRaWAN tape measure (a very handy tool to survey network coverage in areas of interest).

Other highlights:

- We explored some of the features and timing around upcoming V3 changes to TTN
- A great idea was raised to make available some TTN Mapper devices that can be borrowed (an email was sent to all attendees post-event to do just that!)
- Call for help was made for an RPi/LoRa project (thanks to those that were interested with this!)
- Plus a whole lot of discussion about TTN/LoRa in general :)

Our [next event](https://www.meetup.com/The-Things-Network-Meetup-Newcastle-Lake-Macquarie/) is on Thursday the 19th of November at 6:30PM, RSVP if you are heading along.

If you are completely new to TTN/LoRa then head also along to the [LoRa & The Things Network (TTN) Workshop](https://www.meetup.com/Core-Electronics-Workshops/events/255812384/) where you'll get hands-on with hardware and be shown step-by-step how to connect to TTN and send data into the cloud.

Minutes and resources for this meet can be [found on Github](https://github.com/MakerMeets/ttn).