The RN2483 LoRa® Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board is a development board that showcases the Microchip RN2483 Low-Power Long Range, LoRa® Technology Transceiver Module.
Development of a LoRa system with the RN2483 connected to Microchip’s PIC MCU line is possible on PIC18 Explorer boards via the 28-pin PICtail connector, or on Explorer 16 boards using the 30-pin card edge PICtail Plus connector.
The PICtail board also has an on-board PIC18 MCU available for custom user functions. It is pre-programmed to provide a simple USB-to-UART serial bridge enabling easy serial connection. Demonstration of the RN2483 is performed by plugging the daughter board into a USB port of a PC. The USB port powers the daughter board and enables the user to communicate using the RN2483’s simple ASCII command interface.
Microchip RN2483 Low-Power Long Range, LoRa® Technology Transceiver Module
SMA connector for 433 MHz band
SMA connector for 868 MHz band
Solder pads around the module for GPIOs, power pins and communication signals
Supply Current measurement points
On-board LDO
UART traffic LEDs
ICSP header to program the on-board PIC18 MCU
USB connector
PICtail connection interface
PICtail Plus connection interface
PIC18 MCU for custom functions
RN2483 LoRa® Technology PICtail™/PICtail Plus Daughter Board