by Bettina Rubek Slater | Mar 30, 2020 | Product Update
We can very happily confirm that our LoPy4 boards are now Sigfox certified across RC1, RC2 and RC4. But what does that mean? Well, it means that our device operates at Sigfox’s standard across the following countries. RC 1 covers the following: Europe: Austria,...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Mar 11, 2020 | Product Update
What can you do with LoRa? A whole lot of things! In case you didn’t know, LoRa stands for Long Range radio, which is a wireless protocol developed by Semtech (you’ll find their SX127x chipset on our boards). To quote from Semtech’s website, LoRa is a spread...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Mar 6, 2020 | News
It’s almost International Women’s Day! The 8th March is a day that celebrates the social, economic, cultural and political achievements of women, a day that first began in 1911. Around the world there are celebrations of the achievements of women; from the Apple...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 28, 2020 | News, Pycom in the News
Technology has come on in leaps and bounds over the past few decades. In the 2000s, GPS was put into the hands of the general public, Facebook launched four years later, and the iPhone first hit stores in 2007. Then along came the iPad in 2010 and the Alexa ecosystem...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 24, 2020 | Event, News
Although it was meant to kick off this week, it comes as no surprise that Mobile World Congress has been cancelled. It began with LG and then ZTE and then Ericsson AB pulling out on the 7th February. Other big-name attendees rapidly followed suit; Sony Corp., Nokia...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 21, 2020 | Inventions, Product Update
FollowFollowFollow Roll up, roll up, for the biggest update since Apple went from iOS 6 to iOS 7. It’s that ground-breaking. If you haven’t tried our Pybytes device management platform recently, you should. In our quest to make everything a little bit easier for...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 20, 2020 | Pycom in the News
We might already be two months into 2020 and we know that we’re sometimes running too quick to get the words out, but nevertheless, we found the time to do a round-up of Pycom’s 2019. (Gosh, are we in February already?) We had a whirlwind of a year; from new...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 12, 2020 | Partner News
LTE-M coming to a mast near you …if you’re in the UK, that is. The time has finally come! The first LTE-M network has been launched in the UK by O2! To be a bit more specific, O2 claims that this is the first launch of an LTE-M network in the UK. They...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 12, 2020 | News, Pycom in the News
TL;DR – The future of IoT is all about multi-network connectivity. Pycom’s COO, Bettina Rubek-Slater, spoke at the 2020 TTN Conference in Amsterdam about how Pycom manages to stay head of the crowd by catering to the most popular LPWAN networks. The LPWAN marathon...
by Lily Griffey-Hill | Feb 6, 2020 | News, Product Update
FollowFollowFollow Thanks to our dedicated development team, Pymakr just had the refresh button pushed. Prepare to be impressed. Regardless of whether you’re new to Pycom or a veteran supporter, you’ll know that Pymakr is our plug-in for Atom and VSCode. It’s the...
