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**/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
from your host in any language that can open a serial port.
Transparent LoRa radio over USB. Flash the firmware onto a supported
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,
bandwidth, spreading factor, coding rate, TX power) and gets out of the way.
No mesh logic, no protocol opinions, no config files.
Any LoRa board becomes a reusable peripheral that works with any host —
a laptop, a desktop, a Raspberry Pi, a server. The built-in multiplexer
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)