Anybody who gets involved in setting up a LoRa mesh network (for example Meshtastic or Meshcore) eventually encounters the Harbor Breeze Solar Light Enclosure Hack. The hack is that you go to Lowes, purchase a 60-lumen solar powered outdoor light for $10, discard most of it, and add a LoRa mesh controller and antenna. The result (blog article) is a relatively inexpensive LoRa mesh repeater seen at right. The original hack uses a RAK WisBlock controller (RAK link, Rokland link, Amazon link) that costs around $32. In this article I describe how to do the hack using a Seeed Wio controller (Seeed link, Amazon link) that costs around $14 when purchased from Seeed. (more…)