Giveaway Week – WisBlock Kit 2 LoRa-based GPS Tracker with Solar Panel

The second prize of CNX Software’s giveaway week does not come directly from me, but instead, RAKwireless accepted to offer a sample to add to the event: Wisblock Kit 2.

The kit is a LoRa-based GPS tracker that comes with a sensor to detect location change every set time interval, and ships with a solar panel, although you could also offer it with a set of batteries (not included).

Wisblock Kit 2 GPS Tracker Solar PanelSince I’ve never written about this kit, let’s go through the main building blocks:

  • RAK5005-O base board
    • Slots for 1x WisBlock Core MCU module, up to 4x WisBlock Sensor modules, and one WisBlock IO module
    • I2C, UART, GPIO’s and analog input accessible with solder contacts
    • Debugging – USB debug port
    • Misc- 2x user LED’s, reset button
    • Supports 3 different power supply sources
    • 1 slot for WisBlock Core MCU
  • RAK4631 Wisblock Core module
    • WiSoC – Nordic nRF52840 with Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 connectivity
    • LoRa
      • Sentech SX1262 transceiver
      • LoRaWan 1.0.2 protocol stack (supports Class A & C)
  • RAK1904 accelerator module with STMicro LIS3DH acceleration sensor
  • RAK1910 GPS module based on U-Blox MAX-7Q GNSS module with support for GPS/QZSS and GLONASS; 2.5m accuracy, 10 Hz update rate

Solar powered GPS tracker giveawayYou’ll find documentation on the RAK store where it is sold for $77.28 (also on Aliexpress), as well as an Arduino sketch sample on Github.

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say. If the country is missing, I’ll consider the entry void. Other rules are as follows:

  • Only one entry per contest. I will filter out entries with the same IP and/or email address.
  • Contests are open for 48 hours starting at 10 am (Bangkok time) every day.
  • Comments will be closed after 48 hours. If comments are open, the contest is still going on.
  • Winners will be selected with random.org, and announced in the comments section of each giveaway.
  • I’ll contact the winner by email, and I’ll expect an answer within 24 hours, or I’ll pick another winner.
  • Note that I may not be able to contact people who log in with Facebook, Twitter, or Google, so it’s better to use an email address to enter the daw.
  • Shipping will be handled by RAKwireless, and I’ll forward the winner’s email to arrange shipment.
  • I’ll make sure we have 7 different winners, so if you have already won a device during this giveaway week, I’ll draw another person.

Good luck!

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Edgar Mondragon
3 years ago

Mexico
May the Randomness be with me.

Ted Lin
Ted Lin
3 years ago

Taiwan

Chance Challacombe
Chance Challacombe
3 years ago

United States

Huy Thang
3 years ago

Vietnam

bitpilot
bitpilot
3 years ago

Australia. Looks like a cool project!

Stuart
Stuart
3 years ago

Australia. We have lots of sun to power this kit!

Steve Hopkins
3 years ago

Thailand

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SeniL
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Romania

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Katie
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Nitin D'Almeida
3 years ago

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El Tan
El Tan
3 years ago

Philippines

William Page
3 years ago

USA

This would be awesome for expanding the range on my robot car project.

Thomas
Thomas
3 years ago

Hey,
what is the boxes name? Where can i buy this box — for other projects.

Thx.

Frank
Frank
3 years ago

Singapore

Adam C
Adam C
3 years ago

US Thanks for the invite

Jeroen
Jeroen
3 years ago

Belgium

frostwork
frostwork
3 years ago

Looks very interesting!
Germany

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Codrut R
3 years ago

Romania

littleyoda
littleyoda
3 years ago

Germany

Parthiban
3 years ago

Germany. Thanks.

Sathish Guru V
Sathish Guru V
3 years ago

India.

May the odds be ever in my favor!

chaolue
chaolue
3 years ago

New Zealand

Karpiu
Karpiu
3 years ago

Poland. Sorry for the country missing at the first comment.

Chris
Chris
3 years ago

Germany

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

Poland

shivam
shivam
3 years ago

india
gimee da meter hahah..

Loki
Loki
3 years ago

France

Rudi
Rudi
3 years ago

Australia

nick
nick
3 years ago

Let’s help the farmers.
UK

Shane Bekker
Shane Bekker
3 years ago

New Zealand
Been waiting to test a GPS Lora setup

JF002
3 years ago

Belgium

Nikola Samardzic
Nikola Samardzic
3 years ago

Serbia

pi-r
pi-r
3 years ago

Poland

G. Bishop
G. Bishop
3 years ago

Switzerland,
Looks really interesting, but don’t know what to do with that at the moment.

Sajad
Sajad
3 years ago

Sweden

Abbadon
Abbadon
3 years ago

Netherlands

Hong S.
Hong S.
3 years ago

USA.

Interesting produce.

KotCzarny
3 years ago

poland

Ivan Najdanović
Ivan Najdanović
3 years ago

Serbia

gonp
gonp
3 years ago

austria. thank you!

jeanrhum
jeanrhum
3 years ago

France

Jota.nr
Jota.nr
3 years ago

Spain. Hope to get one!

anthony.h
anthony.h
3 years ago

France

Loic
Loic
3 years ago

Switzerland

Yunus
Yunus
3 years ago

Turkey

Can you give an example ? Why we use this device and how we use ? is this a gps tracker device its looking big box in published picture. If device is working what conditions ? Can you describe some detail ?

Thank you

Bjames
Bjames
3 years ago

Hungary

JaXX
3 years ago

Hey from France ! This could actually be a great backup positionning system on a boat (mooring alert) plus a LoRa message upload gw (thinking of plenty use cases)

Peter
Peter
3 years ago

Belgium

Magnus
Magnus
3 years ago

Finland

Vincent
Vincent
3 years ago

France
Great blog with interesting articles

Leandro Zaccaria
Leandro Zaccaria
3 years ago

Italy

TMT
TMT
3 years ago

Spain.
Thanks for your info.

Alexandre Assouad
Alexandre Assouad
3 years ago

France !
Nice giveaway

michael zweers
michael zweers
3 years ago

Netherlands, 🙂

Kovacs Robert
Kovacs Robert
3 years ago

Hungary

christophe rousseau
christophe rousseau
3 years ago

france

great competition.

Marcin
Marcin
3 years ago

Poland
After a long time, I decided to take part. 🙂

Xue Liu
Xue Liu
3 years ago

Hello from German

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Bart
3 years ago

The Netherlands

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Aldo
3 years ago

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vladimir
vladimir
3 years ago

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Hartraft
Hartraft
3 years ago

Belgium
Looks really interesting to get into LoRa

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3 years ago

España

Nicolas Marshall
3 years ago

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Let’s hope !

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3 years ago

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Gung Sukma
3 years ago

Indonesia, wkwkwk

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3 years ago

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Thanks a lot for you great site and news coverage.

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Adam Stephens
3 years ago

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Chida
3 years ago

India

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Darren
3 years ago

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Solar + Lora + GPS + nRF52 > Netflix!

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Dien N
3 years ago

from Vietnam

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

United Kingdom.

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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You are an invaluable source of information for all of us.

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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3 years ago

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Anthony DiLello
3 years ago

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Andi
3 years ago

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TonyT
3 years ago

United States

Afranio
Afranio
3 years ago

Brazil. Thanks!!

Afranio
Afranio
3 years ago

Brazil. Cool product.

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jansen cesar arruda
3 years ago

Brazil

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Hicham B
3 years ago

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3 years ago

United States

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Boris
3 years ago

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3 years ago

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Zuperzebra
3 years ago

From Germany with love!

Neal
Neal
3 years ago

South Africa

Nick
Nick
3 years ago

New Zealand – looks like a neat project.

Jason Piercy
Jason Piercy
3 years ago

Canada

Tim
Tim
3 years ago

USA
Yet another thing I’d love to play with…

Marius
Marius
3 years ago

Romania

David A.M.
David A.M.
3 years ago

Spain here.
Plenty of sun to take the best of that solar panel!

Krzysztof
Krzysztof
3 years ago

Poland

Kamil
Kamil
3 years ago

Poland

tomaz
tomaz
3 years ago

Slovenia

Andrei
Andrei
3 years ago

I definitely would have a good project for this kit. Greetings from Brazil.

Alex Mina
3 years ago

Ukraine

GTurkeli
GTurkeli
3 years ago

Turkey. Good luck everyone!

Matias Warth
3 years ago

Israel

Craig Swan
Craig Swan
3 years ago

USA
I almost bought this directly from RAK, but shipping was high, thx!

Jon Mott
Jon Mott
3 years ago

USA

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Occam
3 years ago

USA Spin wheel

T. R.
T. R.
3 years ago

Never won before, so may the luck be with me this time 🙂

Italy

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3 years ago

Taiwan

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Michal Rodzos
3 years ago

Australia

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3 years ago

Spain

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Martin F
3 years ago

Germany

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phill tran
3 years ago

United States

Anthony Tripi
Anthony Tripi
3 years ago

United States. Let’s get mining!

suriyan
suriyan
3 years ago

Thailand. Looks interesting!

Roylee Sanchez
Roylee Sanchez
3 years ago

May the odds be in my favor

United States

Afranio
Afranio
3 years ago

Brazil. Good luck everyone!

Afranio
Afranio
3 years ago

Brazil. Good luck everyone!

Jonathan Reid
Jonathan Reid
3 years ago

New Zealand

Robbie Heugel
Robbie Heugel
3 years ago

USA

jabran shafique
3 years ago

PAKISTAN
IN SHA ALLAHA I WILL BE THE WINNER OF THE GIVEAWAY

Kedar Koppikar
Kedar Koppikar
3 years ago

Me too

Alessandro Morales
3 years ago

Perú

Mustafa Kurt
Mustafa Kurt
3 years ago

Germany

Tom
3 years ago

your country

Guillaume
Guillaume
3 years ago

France

Claudio Duffini
Claudio Duffini
3 years ago

Italy
Great setup !

Parthiban
3 years ago

Germany.

Michael Hawkins
3 years ago

United States
May the farce be with you 🙂

Hoangdinh86
Hoangdinh86
3 years ago

VietNam

Hickory Smith
Hickory Smith
3 years ago

Malaysia
Perfect for tracking vehicles up the hill to my guesthouse

Aleksandar Pericin
Aleksandar Pericin
3 years ago

Serbia

3 years ago

Poland

Grzegorz Drozd
Grzegorz Drozd
3 years ago

Poland

Parveen
Parveen
3 years ago

India

khancyr
khancyr
3 years ago

France, Let’s make this a TinyGS station !

fmp
fmp
3 years ago

Portugal

Frank
Frank
3 years ago

United Kingdom – England
Have a great day 🙂

Magnus Einarsson
Magnus Einarsson
3 years ago

Sweden

Arvo
Arvo
3 years ago

Latvia

avra
avra
3 years ago

Serbia

Vitaly
Vitaly
3 years ago

Ukraine.

Christian
Christian
3 years ago

Austria. Nice product.

Vitaly
Vitaly
3 years ago

Ukraine

Manuel
Manuel
3 years ago

Portugal – a lot of sun to power these!

Ameer Marie
3 years ago

Jordan

Tomas Muehlhoff
Tomas Muehlhoff
3 years ago

Germany

Balázs
Balázs
3 years ago

Hungary

Herbert Hotz
3 years ago

Switzerland
Hope to be a lucky winner!
Best regards to the sponsor.

Tom Bed
Tom Bed
3 years ago

Poland

Manuel
Manuel
3 years ago

Portugal

Sławomir
Sławomir
3 years ago

Poland
Hope to learn how to use this 🙂

Dmytro
Dmytro
3 years ago

Ukraine

hkguy
hkguy
3 years ago

USA

Syed Khalid Ahmed
Syed Khalid Ahmed
3 years ago

India

Eamonn
Eamonn
3 years ago

Ireland

Ulices
Ulices
3 years ago

I’m from Mexico

David To
David To
3 years ago

USA

CHRIS
CHRIS
3 years ago

usa

JURAJ
3 years ago

France
Thnx so much 😉

Matt
Matt
3 years ago

Brazil

Leon Woestenberg
3 years ago

The Netherlands
Can it also harvest rain?

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