Maria Hernandez

Meshtastic 2.0 – Faster, Smarter, and More Reliable.

An ecosystem combined will never be overpowered and will grow together at the hands of a group of people passionate about technology—the result of the collaboration between Meshtastic and RAKwireless.

WisToolBox Beta Launch: Open Call for Beta testers + WisBlock Giveaway

WisToolBox: The application that streamlines the configuration of RAKwireless Edge devices

RAK joins the Climate Clock Network using the WisBlock Ecosystem

We are in a climate emergency, but there is a window of hope. Be part of the solution by creating your own Desktop Climate Clock.

Hands-on with RAKStars San Valentine's Edition

Every day is a wonderful one to express our love. However, #Valentine's Day is a great excuse to be sweeter than ever. Due to this, we wanted to build something tech special little thing to give a present to your loved ones.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 48 with Daniel deLaveaga

During this session, Daniel deLaveaga, Chief Storytelling Officer at Ioterra, will share his professional journey connecting product developers with experts and resources to meet their needs when developing innovative IoT products

Hands-on with RAKStars Xmas Edition

During this session, RAK's team of experts, Jose Marcelino, Johan Macias, and Maria Hernandez, will be closing up the year by hacking the RAK ecosystem to build a Christmas Project to give that Xmas spirit to your electronics projects.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 47 with Ali Benfattoum

During this session, Ali Benfattoum, Senior Specialist Solutions Architect for IoT in AWS, will share his professional journey, including an relevant intro to the AWS IoT Core for LoRaWAN.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 46 with Cristina Botero

During this session, Cristina Botero, Business Development and Partner Manager of Ubidots, will share her professional journey, including how she has been empowered into the IoT ecosystem to grow a local startup's business to an international level.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 45: Helium Network to deploy IoT solutions powered by RAK

Johan would be sharing how we can quickly and easily start validating the Helium network coverage in our cities, using the Mapper powered by the WisBlock Helium Developer Kit.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 44 with George Newman

During this session, George Newman, Founder, and CEO of One Planet Education Network (OPEN), will share more about their STEM+ project-based learning programs.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 43 with Xavier Florensa

In this session, Xavier will share insights on why it is vital to implement LoRaWAN and IoT technologies in industrial environments.

Helium Developer Kit

The Internet of Things (IoT) plays an essential role in the way we live nowadays and how new technologies impact the way we connect devices to the internet.

Hands-on with RAKStars Special Edition: Autumn Launch Event

In this session, the RAKwireless team summed up the #Autumn Launch Event. Maria and Jose shared in more detail the released products, WisDM WisGate OS latest features, WisGate Edge Pro, TrackIt, WisBlock ecosystem expansion, and much more.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 42 with Beray Bentesen

During this session, Beray Qubitro, Founder & CEO, will share more about the latest features released on the platform for the community, including a demo with the RAKwireless team

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 41 with Johan Macias

During this session, Johan Macias, Developer Advocate at RAK, will be sharing the technical details about the implementation of containers in LoRa/LoRaWAN applications based on the WisBlock ecosystem, as well as all the benefits it brings us as IoT developers.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 40 with Christopher Méndez

Christopher, an Electronics Engineer passionate about teaching and content creation, will share his experiences educating people in the tech Hispanic community through his YouTube channel, MCMCHRIS and other educational platforms.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 39: Hotspotty 2.0... How to start?

During this session, the Hotspotty team will share more details on how to analyzing The Peoples Network while managing it easily with just a couple of clicks.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 38 with Neil Skoglund

Neil Skoglund an entrepreneur developer with over 10 years of experience developing scalable solutions for large web stores will share his experience in the technology ecosystem and the cryptocurrency community.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 37 with Johan Macias

During this session, Johan Macias, Developer Advocate at RAK, will be sharing his experience developing hardware projects for the Healthcare industry and his thoughts on the IoT ecosystem.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 36 with Dimitris Mamalis & Ioannis Charalampidis

Dimitris and Ioannis are two passionate engineers who believe that the Internet of Things should be accessible to everyone.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 35 with Travis Teague & Alejandra Buznego

Travis Teague, Developer Growth Lead, and Alejandra Buznego, Software Developer at Helium, join the RAKstars stage to share more details about Console 2.0.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 34 with Jose Marcelino

Jose Marcelino, joins this session to share everything needed to combine the best of two communications worlds to achieve low power and long-range communication for IoT solutions, adding a great user experience.

RAKstars Discord Community has reached over 1K members!

We are delighted to share with you an exciting milestone… Our RAKStars Discord Community has reached 1,000 members and counting!

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 33 with Amine Mehdi Mansouri

Amine will share his experience working with different IoT projects and what it's like to launch a successful Kickstarter campaign to create end products - such as the Axon, an IoT device that aims to connect any serial-speaking device to the internet by connecting two wires.

Hands-on with RAKStars Special Edition WisBlock Week

During this session, the RAKwireless team will sum up the WisBlock Launch Week in just one hour.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 32 with Manuel Sanchez

Manuel will share his experience as an electronics engineer, researching different tech projects and how it is to develop hardware projects.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 31 with Simon Kemper

Simon will share his experience as Datacake Founder & CEO, including their vision & mission and the needs identified in the IoT ecosystem once Datacake was founded.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 30 with Marc Pous and Xose Pérez

Xose Peréz, and Marc Pous, both Engineers, IoT hackers, and loyal open-source contributors, share their experience hacking LoRaWAN systems, contributing to the expansion of the network in Spain, as well as some tips-n-tricks to build and deploy LoRaWAN IoT solutions from scratch.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 29: Setting up a Helium Light Hotspot next to the RAK team

During this session, Vladislav Yordanov, a passionate Electrical Engineer with experience in telecommunication, shares his experiences working with 5G, and LoRa/LoRaWAN projects, as well as who is to work as a Product Application Engineer at RAK

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 28 with Paul Pinault

Paul Pinault, an engineer with years of experienced in several a companies who is dedicated to the creation of IoT devices, with a mission of sharing his professional experiences in university trainings, as well with the open source community.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 27 with Abhijeet Bhatikar

Abhijeet Bhatikar is a Software Developer at Accenture The Dock, Dublin, Ireland. He is an accomplished architect and a programmer with more than 15 years of tech experience.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 26 with Wendell Brown

Wendell Brown, a Software Engineer with +40 years of programming experience, who loves tinker with electronics, and 3D printing as hobbies.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 25 with Guillaume Paquet

Guillaume is an individual passionate about Embedded Systems and the Open-Source world. He loves to share his knowledge in connectivity technologies such as LoRaWAN, Sigfox, and LTE/NB-IoT.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 24 with Carl Erick Rowan

Carl, a curious electronics engineer who has dedicated his career to supporting different activities around the development of hardware products from kick-off to mass production – we can call him a jack of all trades.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 22, WisBlock Power: Helium Developer Kit

During this session, we introduce the Helium Developer Kit to the RAKStars community next to Travis Teague, Developer Growth Lead at Helium.

Hands-on with RAKStars Special Edition: Spring Launch Event

During this session, the RAKwireless team will sum up the first IoT Spring Launch Event. We'll be sharing in more detail the released products, #WisDM latest features, #WisGate Edge new line, #WisBlock ecosystem expansion, and much more.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 21 with Beray Bentesen

Beray Bentesen, a passionate entrepreneur experienced in Software Development & Architecture who undertakes a global company that helps IoT developers and businesses to bring their IoT ideas into existence.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 20 with Kiara Navarro

Kiara, a passionate Embedded Hardware Engineer shared her experiences working in the development of IoT consumer products under cellular networks, and LoRa/LoRaWAN.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 19: Sharespot, The Peoples Network across Portugal

A group of 5 friends with different backgrounds teamed up to create Share spot, a company with the mission to expand an IoT network across Portugal.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 18 with Marc van Bracht

Marc van Bracht, an individual with +25 years of experience working with telecommunications solutions and angel behind the open LoRaWAN coverage of Venray, Netherlands.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 17 Helium at 21K hotspots... What's next

Travis, Paul, Louis, and Marc. Engineers, hackers, and open-source contributors. Each of them is united to achieve a common mission, building a connected world next to many other individuals.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 16 with Paul Pinault

In this session, Paul, a lover of hacking #LoRaWAN and Sigfox system shares his journey working with several software and hardware projects, and at the same time, the story behind Disk91.com a technical blog where he shares about #IoT, Infrastructure, and Hardware related topics.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 15 with Agustin Pelaez

In this session, Agustin shares his journey as entrepreneur founding #Ubidots, a global IoT startup with thousand of users worldwide, as well as many other experiences working next to developers in various IoT projects from different industries worldwide.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 14 with Dimitris Mamalis & Ioannis Charalampidis

In this session, Dimitris and Ioannis, two passionate engineers who believe that the Internet of Things should be accessible to everyone, share their vision about the #IoT ecosystem.

4 Industries Profoundly Changed by Internet of Things Solutions

We are in new and unexpected times. Change and our willingness to evolve project us as a race and visualize us in the future.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 13 with Travis L. Teague

In this session, Travis shares his journey working with various hardware projects, and at the same time, how he has been empowering focused technology communities worldwide over the last few years.

Modular IoT Hardware Development is Now Possible with the WisBlock Connected Box

Modular IoT hardware is the new and exciting way to create devices for any industry, something RAKwireless has already provided to its community of RAKStars.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 12 with Xose Peréz

In this session, Xose shares what it's like to step out of the software world and join the hardware - the fun part of any development. We discussed about the process of creating the open-source projects, among them the two most well know in the IoT community, ESPurna, and FauxmoESP.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 11 with Xavier Florensa

During this session, Xavier will be share with us about his own way of mixing classic automation with IoT technologies using RAKwireless products – RAK2245 as concentrator and WisNode Bridge Serial.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 10 with Carlos Solis

In this session, Carlos Solis shares his passion for creating connected things. He details his latest project called “The Gas Tank Cap,” a WisBlock-based system that detects every time the cap is removed to prevent gasoline and cap theft.

RAK joins The Things Conference - the world’s largest LoRaWAN® event

The Things Conference is the best opportunity of the year to get the latest and greatest insights about the LoRa ecosystem, alongside industry experts.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 9 with Antonio Valente

In this session, we will talk about Antonio Valente's experience working in the field of micro-system for agriculture during the past years. He will be sharing about the projects SAFe — Forest Alert System, and eno — Alatytics to monitor vineyards.

Why We Make WisBlock: The Story Behind RAK’s Modular IoT Platform

All great ideas come from a basic problem that no one has solved yet. Think about humanity's milestones, like electricity, clean water to be consumed, airplanes, and art masterpieces.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 8 with Andreas Kücker

In this session, we will talk about Andreas Kücker's experience doing digital innovation during the past years, as well as his experience deploying a LoRa network on an entire region using RAK7240 gateways

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 7 with Alejandro Juan & Oscar Flores

In this session, we will discuss Alejandro's, and Oscar's, experience working with Electronics projects using LoRa, and how they have created local communities to promote the use of technology in their cities.

How IoT Entrepreneurs Use Existing Tools to Build Smart-Technology Empires

Smart technology and IoT innovation are everywhere. From the way we grow our food to how we entertain ourselves, IoT entrepreneurs are continuously developing new technologies to advance our everyday lives.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 6: Bernhard Isemann

Hands-on with #RAKStars is where you will find all passionate IoT developers in the community. In each episode, our RAKStars talk about their cool projects, hacks, and many other awesome experiences.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 5 with Orkhan AmirAslan

Hands-on with RAKStars is where you will find all passionate IoT developers in the community.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 4 with Andres Vallejo

In this "Hands-on RAKStars" session, Andres shared the need he saw in the smart building industry and how he attacked it with his company BeMotorized.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 3 with Marc Pous

In this session of Hands-on #RAKStars, Marc shared with us how and why he founded theThingsIO, as well as his active participation in IoT communities.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 2 with Eduardo Contreras

In this "Hands-on RAKStars" session, Eduardo shared with us what motivated him to create Electronic Cats, as well as his experience in creating hardware in Latin America.

Connect a RAK7204 to Helium and Forward Its Data to Ubidots

Start working with Helium along with your RAK devices. This project presents the integration of a RAK7204 to Ubidots over Helium LongFi.

Hands-on with RAKStars Episode 1 with Bryn Lewis

In this "Hands-on RAKStars" session, Bryn shared with us his experience in the industry and within the community, the contributions he has made to support .NET in RAK modules, as well as the integrations with Microsoft services to deploy IoT applications.

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