SnapCON 2022: A Successful Workshop in Heidelberg

Shreya Gupta

Let's PlAIy: a successful debut of the workshop at SnapCON 2022

Among the expertise of various Snap! maestros, Let's PlAIy debuted to a welcoming crowd. A team of two students and a participating professional all led by Prof. Rolf Becker attended the Snap! Conference 2022 in the city of Heidelberg. The four-day event saw the virtual presence of various industry professionals and Snap language aficionados attending from all over the world. Originally developed as a programming language for children, Snap comes in use in many inventive ways nowadays. EOLab's own project 'Let's PlAIy' was presented by the participants Harley Lara, students Ilgar Rasulov and Ali Farzizada from Hochschule Rhein Waal.


The project involves Object Detection technology using NVIDIA jetson servers and Tello drones. On the second day of the conference, Dr. Becker gave a lightning talk introducing the team and the university to the audience. The participants made use of the little time by speeding through the nit-bits of the project and displaying the jetson servers and drones. The third day of the conference saw the team engaging the audience in a one on one interactive workshop with remote server connections to use Snap for image classification on their own. The workshop experience was received positively by the conference attendees.

New LoRa gateway installed at Tambopata

By Shreya Gupta • January 9, 2023
Our team member Jan Sonntag was on a mission at the Tambopata tower located in Peru. A new prototype of LoRa node for dendrometer reading was installed to test whether sending and reading the measurement data is possible. As part of the endeavour, LoRaWAN gateway and router with 4G connection were also installed at the tower in order to allow an infrastructure of multiple eddy covariance towers in the Amazon basin with connection to one network. This network will maintain a data feed from areas with the towers to be collected online via a VPN service remotely. This comes as part of steps to support our project partner at the Institute of Nature, Earth and Energy at the Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú to set up this infrastructure that takes the communication with the towers to the next level of remote connection, as well as create a central hub of data exchange in the Andesflux tower network. A series of successful tests of measurement and data reading will establish the long-term usability of the network. In the meantime, the beautiful views of the Amazon forests are to be enjoyed.