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Learning LoRa Networking at Iffy Books I went to a mesh networking workshop over the weekend at Iffy Books1They're an awesome leftist hacker bookstore here in Philly, definitely worth checking out if you're in the area, or supporting financially so they can stick around. and had a great time! We all had/bought these LoRa2Short for Long Range. LoRa is a (proprietary) mesh networking radio communication technology. devices that we needed to set up. We flashed them with Meshtastic firmware and went through the process of setting it all up. It was my first real experience with non-web networking and it's already helping me imagine what else is possible. A Heltec LoRa V3. 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