5 years ago, within a few months of The Things Network being created, we started a small community in Thatcham, West Berkshire with 1 gateway.
The or…

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After 4 years of being the Thatcham TTN community, we are now the West Berks TTN community.

Please join us for all things TTN within the Thatcham, Ne…

The Things Conference on Tour is coming to Reading in October and as a close neighbour we will be there.

More details and tickets are available at ht…

The DIY gateway based on the Raspberry Pi and the RAK Wireless RAK833 LoRa concentrator card has now been put into an enclosure based on an aluminium…

One of our backers, Thing Innovations, have created a new gateway based on the RAKWireless RAK833 LoRaWAN concentrator card. The adaptor board plugs …

In October we turn 3!

Sometime in October 2015 our first gateway was installed. The same Multitech Conduit AEP gateway is still running and was join…

We are hosting an event on 8th August, 7pm at NADHack, The Workshop, The Moors, Thatcham RG19 3AZ.

Come along to learn how The Things Network (https:…

Just a quick note to say we are in the process of sorting out a date and venue for a meetup to get things moving along.
Lookout for details soon.

Initial coverage is looking good with the two gateways. More roads to be walked or ridden to check coverage espescially on the south side of the town.

After over 2 years since the kickstarter campaign ended our backer reward has finally arrived in the shape of a new gateway, two Things Uno boards an…

A new sensor has just been added, a Davis Instruments Rain gauge complete with a LoRaWAN interface sending data via TTN. This is using a full IP67 ra…

Our main sponsor has produced one of the best and easiest to use LoRaWAN sensor development shields. This is based on the Microchip RN2483, it includ…

Our partner Thing Innovations are developing a number of air quality monitoring devices. The first of these is a portable CO2 monitor with GPS. This …

Do you want to help grow the Thatcham TTN community? Build and deploy sensors using out gateway (and future gateways)?

Join the community and find ou…

The LoRa Occupancy sensor from Thing Innovations has been developed on the multi-use sensor platform ENV-Board, developed in collaboration with Herel…

Our partner Thing Innovations has developed, in partnership with Herelab.io a multi-purpose sensor platform based on the MultiTech mDot LoRaWAN modul…

Thing Innovations recently spent a few days on the island of Martha's Vineyard working with Herelab on the design of a new LoRaWAN sensor platform. T…

Our community initiator, Andrew, spent some time in the USA in April looking at a number of LoRa projects that can be directly usable on The Things N…

We recently had a community sign created that is illuminated with a series of RGB LEDs.

Do you need a big button that you can just hit to do that one thing you always want doing? Order Pizza? Turn off all the lights? Change TV channel? W…

A new sensor has been deployed in a shed owned by our community member Justin. The sensor is based on the MultiTech mDot module and a DHT22 temperatu…

Prior to developing the LoRaWAN Pi board, a breakout PCB for the Microchip RN2483 was developed to allow quick and easy prototyping of devices using …

With the release of the new Raspberry Pi Zero, this was a perfect opportunity to produce an add on board to allow these new Pi Zeros to be connected …

The evening of Thursday 19th November saw the first meeting of the Thatcham TTN community where future plans and ideas were discussed. Further meetin…

The second sensor uses the MultiTech systems mDot LoRa module. This includes the LoRa transceiver chip and microcontroller on a small Xbee compatible…

One of the first sensors being tested is built using a Teensy LC Arduino compatible module and a HopeRF RFM92W LoRa transceiver module. This is curre…

The first LoRaWAN gateway in Thatcham was installed in August 2015 and has only recently joined The Things Network. The gateway is a MultiTech Condui…