Potato on the Jetty - Range testing PCB Antennas

Today we made some phone calls over a 400m link using PCB antennas.

We want to use etched PCB Wifi antennas for the Mesh Potato. However we have heard that some companies have had problems with PCB antennas, such as variable results in production. So before committing to PCB antenna we wanted to do some [...]

Antenna Testing

Jeff and I have just had an enjoyable day outside testing candidate antennas for the Mesh Potato. Our goal was to evaluate candidates for the internal antenna of the production Mesh Potato.

Jeff designed three types of antennas which I laid out on PCB and had fabricated locally. The three designs were a dipole, a [...]