Lets create the PineCom

[krisradio]

Thanks for sharing that!
I was looking at article Lup Yen's Pine Dio page at: https://lupyuen.github.io/articles/pinedio, but didn't notice that LoRa had been tested until you pointed it out.

RISC-V is a really intriguing instruction set to me, but I'm more familiar with the Cortex family (M4 specifically, but M0 fits inside that body of knowledge, so it should be easy to adapt). I am really attached to the idea of building a backpack for the PinePhone to allow off-grid communications. It's not another IoT sensor project, more of a text-based walkie-talkie. Of course, Lup Yen's work on the Pine Dio is really inspirational (wow! so many pictures! hand drawn waveforms! that's awesome!!), but I don't want to switch to the Pine Dio platform.

Would you imagine it's possible to communicate directly to the LoRa module through the 6 PoGo pins on the back of the PinePhone? It seems, to me, like a processor on the backpack would be required to manage the LoRa, but if it can be directly connected via PoGo and controlled on PinePhone software, that saves a lot of trouble.

Thanks for checking out my idea and pointing me towards those great resources!