docs: rewrite README intro for clarity

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**/ˈdɒŋ.ɡəl.ɔːr.ə/** — a [portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau) of **dongle** and **LoRa**. **/ˈdɒŋ.ɡəl.ɔːr.ə/** — a [portmanteau](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portmanteau) of **dongle** and **LoRa**.
Transparent LoRa radio over USB. Plug in a supported board, talk LoRa Transparent LoRa radio over USB. Flash the firmware onto a supported
from your host in any language that can open a serial port. board, plug it in, and send/receive LoRa packets from your computer.
The firmware handles the radio; your code decides what to do with it.
The firmware is a dumb pipe — it exposes clean LoRa parameters (frequency, Any LoRa board becomes a reusable peripheral that works with any host —
bandwidth, spreading factor, coding rate, TX power) and gets out of the way. a laptop, a desktop, a Raspberry Pi, a server. The built-in multiplexer
No mesh logic, no protocol opinions, no config files. lets multiple applications share one dongle at the same time, so you can
run a MeshCore bot, a packet analyzer, and a bridge all on the same
radio without dedicated hardware for each.
![photograph of firmware running on Heltec V4](./demo.jpg) ![photograph of firmware running on Heltec V4](./demo.jpg)