JP’s Product Pick of the Week 10/13/26

But, uh, before I say any more, I will have Lady Ada take it away.

When are you gonna get the LoRa version?

Uh-huh.

This is a, uh, feather RP2040 with a LoRa 900 megahertz module that you can use to, uh, run a LoRaWAN stack or just LoRa, which, you know, is i- its own protocol.

You don't need to run LoRaWAN, which is a, a, a type of, uh, software stack that runs on LoRa.

Um, 900 megahertz means you can tune it down to 868 or up to 915, and then just pick the right antenna and you're gonna still get about 20 dBm output.

Um, you st- have all the feather pins that you expect, um, four analog pins and things like 20 total GPIO.

STEMIQT on the end there, you can plug in sensors, OLEDs, whatever.

NeoPixels, eight megabytes of flash, um, that nice RP2040 core, which will work great with MicroPython, CircuitPython or Arduino.

U.FL antenna, um, and the FCC IC certified, uh, SX1276-based, um, uh, Semtech LoRa module.

Mm-hmm.

Yes, that's right.

That is what it is.

That right there is the product pick of the week this week.

It is the Adafruit RP2040 Feather with an RFM95 LoRa module in the 900 megahertz range.

Uh, you can use this like you use any feather with Arduino, with CircuitPython.

Uh, it has...

Let me, let me grab my facts here.

Uh, so it has the LoRa long range packet radio on it.

We'll talk a little bit more about that.

You can, uh, tune that anywhere from 868 to 915 megahertz.

Uh, you can use a little quarter wave wire antenna.

It comes with a little, uh, pigtail antenna.

I'll show you that in a moment.

You can also use a U.FL, um, antenna, uh, connector th- which we sell to go to bigger antennas if you want.