Description
The BKB-RFM95W-UFL allows you to build your own LoRa™ long range radio modem at a very low cost. By simply buying this pcb and the recommended parts, you can solder up a LoRa™ wireless modem for your application.
This bare pcb accommodates a HopeRF RFM95W LoRa™ modem, Hirose U.FL antenna connector and two – seven pin 0.1″ headers that are spaced properly to easily push into a standard breadboard, with room on each side for wiring up your modem to a microcontroller. The U.FL pads have been extended for easy hand soldering!
Applications
- Hobbiests – Connect sensors across homes, buildings and properties
- Low Power Wireless Sensor Networks – long range, low cost connections not possible with bluetooth, WiFi or other radio modems at similar cost and size.
- Educators – teach about link budgets and show how -140dBm sensitivity can drive extreme distances with low power radios.
- Arduino enthusiasts – leverage sketch libraries and do minimal coding to get a LoRa™ network passing data.
Features
- Two rows of 0.1″ header pins. The rows are spaced 0.8″ to allow standard connectivity on development breadboards and prototype boards.
- Narrow design allows you to stick this into a breadboard and have room on each side for wires.
- RFM95W mounted on bottom to allow for big port labels on the top to easily read where wires attach on adjacent breadboard slots.
- U.FL connector pads have been extended, to allow for easy hand soldering at three points.
- This breakout board will accommodate the following HopeRF Modems, because they all have the same footprint : RFM95W, RFM96W, RFM98W, RFM95TW, RFM96TWs
Parts Needed
(This product must be controlled by a 3.3V microcontroller. We suggest using a 3.3V Arduino development board and the associated libraries to quickly get going. )
1 ea. BKB-RFM95W-UFL, Breakout Board (the product on this page)
1 ea. HopeRF Modem (RFM95W, RFM96W, RFM98W, RFM95TW, RFM96TW)
2 ea. 1×7, 0.1″ Headers (Suggest Digikey 609-6400-ND)
1 ea. 900MHz Antenna with U.FL connector
Additional Info:
What is LoRa™ technology?
LoRa™ is quickly becoming the defacto wireless modulation standard for the Internet of Things. Utilizing “chirp” modulation, LoRa™ modems are able to connect super long ranges in the right conditions, due to extremely low receive sensitivity.
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