We’ve covered plenty of hardware with LoRa radio from gateways, to Arduino shields, tracker boards, and mini PCIe cards, but after reading an article on Hackster.io this morning, I realized we never wrote about any LoRa USB stick.
RangePi – previoulsy LoRa Stick – is an open source hardware USB dongle based on Semtech SX1262 & SX1268, and offered on SB Components at £20 with free delivery worldwide.
RangePi is low power-consuming, half-duplex dongle. It can wirelessly transmit data to long-distance. It is built-in high speed and low power-consuming RP2040 MCU and SX1262 & SX1268 modulation chipset. This chipset is applied with the forward error correction technique which greatly improves interference immunity and advances sensitivity.
Range-Pi USB LoRa Stick Specifications
- Onboard RP2040
- Serial Port Module - E22-900T22S1B/E22-900T22S1B
- Power - 22dBm
- Onboard 1.14" LCD
- Voltage Level Translator(74HC125V)
- Communication range up to 5 KM
- Supports auto repeating to transmit longer
- Low Power Consumption
- Highly Secured
- For Evaluating signal quality with the RSSI or "Received Signal Strength Indicator"
- Wireless parameter configuration support
- Fixed-point transmission support
- SMA and IPEX Antenna Connector
- Communication via UART
- Comes with development resources and manual
The board works with any PC, as well as Linux development boards such as Raspberry Pi or BeagleBone. It’s easier to carry compared to a prototype with jumper wires, can be programmed via a simple ASCII interface, supports packet mode LoRa or LoRaWAN, and works with the Things Networks. More details available on RangePi official page
