General purpose

Promoting the exchange of electronic information and all that is related or beneficial to that purpose, Democratic Sendcomm participates in the initiative to deliver subgigaherz frequency low power long range radio communication devices for research and higher education technology development.

Project status

:white_check_mark: A release device is design complete, with advanced hardware tests passed.

:white_check_mark: A subset of production grade devices have been fabricated and assembled.

:truck: A number of parts are in transit, for population on partially assembled boards.

:construction: Donors have pledged new machines for use in fine calibration of radio circuits.

Outreach

We maintain a list of institutions able to conduct research using devices.

Academic institutions

• :de: Technische Universität München
• 🇪🇪 Tartu Ülikool Arvutiteaduse Instituut
• 🇪🇪 Tallinn University of Technology
• 🇳🇱 Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam
• 🇳🇱 Delft University of Technology
• 🇳🇱 Eindhoven University of Technology
• 🇳🇬 Tai Solarin University of Education
• :cn: New York University Shanghai
• 🇱🇺 University of Luxembourg
• 🇧🇪 Université libre de Bruxelles
• :de: Hochschule Bonn-Rhein-Sieg

Research institutions

• :de: Fraunhofer Society
• :de: Leibniz-Rechenzentrum
• 🇨🇭 CERN (Kicad contact)

Research hotspots

• 🇳🇱 RIPE
• 🇧🇪 FOSDEM
• 🇪🇪 Garage48
• 🇨🇿 Paralelni Polis
• :de: City of Munich
• :de: Wikimedia Berlin
• :us: EFF Technology
• 🇰🇪 Gearbox Nairobi
• 🇪🇺 ESA CADSAT
• Society of Women Engineers
• IEEE Women in Engineering

Enthusiast makerlabs

• :cn: SZOil
• :de: CBase
• 🇦🇹 Metalab
• 🇪🇪 K-Space
• :us: Noisebridge
• :cn: Xin Che Jian
• :de: Fablab Munich

Incubators or accelerators

• 🇪🇪 Mektory Tallinn

TTN map finds

None listed yet.

Getting started

If you're a recipient of Sendcomm devices, follow these instructions on getting started to use them.

:notebook_with_decorative_cover: Instruction set is pending edition and publication of documents, please stay tuned here.

Project sponsors

This project receives generous help from sponsors. We thank them for the resources pledged.