Lightning Flex Module

I made some videos during a storm a couple of weeks ago:

They seem to work OK indoors, but I believe they will be more sensitive outside.

We just added this board to Tindie. We have a half a dozen or so developed and we will try to setup a demo and eventually example usage depending on the weather...

https://www.tindie.com/products/Fyberlabs/lightning-flex-module/

There do not appear to be any public drivers, so we will have to produce our own.  Update: there are now i2c compatible drivers on github.  Awesome!

https://github.com/SloMusti/AS3935-Arduino-Library

I followed the reference design somewhat and added vias, though I would think this is all much larger wavelength than the whole board.

The tank coil is pretty simple, but surprising. The datasheet just states 'antenna' and does not go into design detail. Since Coilcraft made them this custom antenna we decided to use it. I believe just about any tank circuit would probably work to some degre..

We have some samples, but nothing from AMS yet. Hopefully we get something soon.