Giveaway Week 2024 – RAKwireless Blues.ONE LoRaWAN, LTE-M, and NB-IoT devkit

For the fourth year in a row, RAKwireless is participating in CNX Software’s Giveaway Week, and this year, the company is offering the Blues.ONE IoT development kit with LoRaWAN, LTE-M, and NB-IoT connectivity and 500MB of cellular data through the Blues NoteCard.

The devkit can be used to prototype or develop IoT devices for industrial automation and asset-tracking applications and relies on the WisBlock modular IoT prototyping system with the RAK13102 WisBlock Blues Notecarrier, the Blues NoteCard, a WisBlock Base Board, and a WisBlock Core module.

Blues.ONE kit content:

• RAK4631 WisBlock Core Module based on
  • Nordic Semi nRF52840 Arm Cortex-M4F microcontroller @ 64 MHz with 1 MB Flash, 256 KB RAM, Bluetooth Low Energy 5.0 protocol stack
  • Semtech SX1262 LoRa Transceiver with LoRaWAN 1.0.2 protocol stack
• RAK19007 WisBlock Base Board with 4x sensor slots, 1x IO slot, a USB Type-C port, a rechargeable battery connector, and a solar panel connector
• RAK13102 WisBlock IO module with M.2 connector for Blues Notecard V1 or V2
• Blues Notecard NBGL-500
  • Supports LTE-M, NB-IoT and GSM networks
  • Bundled with 500MB of cellular data valid for up to 10 years. No cellular subscriptions, SIM fees, or monthly minimums apply.
  • Global coverage for LTE-M and/or NB-IoT
• External LTE antenna – GPS antenna, LoRa antenna, BLE antenna
• USB-C to USB-A cable

The development kit is programmable with the Arduino IDE and a location tracker firmware with source code and instructions to get started can be found on GitHub.

To enter the draw simply leave a comment with your country and whatever else you’d like to say (no links in the body of the comment). 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 draw.
• Shipping
  • RAKwireless will handle shipping, so the winner does not have anything to pay.
  • The giveaway is global and open to all, except for readers based in Thailand since RAKwireless is offering a second Blues.ONE devkit on CNX Software Thailand, and you should apply there if you’d like to have the kit shipped to Thailand.
• 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 to all!

The Blues.ONE devkit can also be purchased on the RAKwireles store for $106 and up depending on whether you need the optional enclosure and/or battery included in the kit

Jean-Luc Aufranc (CNXSoft)

Jean-Luc started CNX Software in 2010 as a part-time endeavor, before quitting his job as a software engineering manager, and starting to write daily news, and reviews full time later in 2011.

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