# Almost like a Particle Photon - or build your own node

> Adafruit has just launched its own LoRa board: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-32u4-radio-with-lora-radio-module/overview?view=all But if you feel l

- Type: Community update
- Community: [The Things Network Tartu](https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/tartu/)
- Author: andy zbinden
- Published: 2016-11-23
- Web page: https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/community/tartu/post/almost-like-a-particle-photon-or-build-your-own-node

Adafruit has just launched its own LoRa board: https://learn.adafruit.com/adafruit-feather-32u4-radio-with-lora-radio-module/overview?view=all

But if you feel like building one yourself, look at
https://www.thethingsnetwork.org/labs/story/build-the-cheapest-possible-node-yourself