I was playing with LoRa a few years ago, most of the guys in the club I was in at school were into RF stuff, most of the guys were EE I was the only CPE, so they were mostly messing with SDRs and making packet trackers. One of their projects was to be able to coordinate within 1 meter an 802.11 radio up to 1 mile with a single antenna and an SDR. They did it before I left.

I really like Microchip/Atmel products and their tools/libraries. I was writing firmware, and a linux driver for rpis for LoRa because it was really underdeveloped and even the SPI library was maked as partially working and no longer maintained. Probably still in use today. So i went to rewrite it all but life got in the way. Finding work has been tough, so I've had to try where there's more money and personal freedom and that seems to be software if I can land it. I don't want to give up on HW/FW but that's how I see it for now. I miss electronics/tinkering for sure!

That said. here is what's left of my lab. My other benches and large parts bins are still full but in my storage shed for now. I still want a nice logic and spectrum analyzer one of thes days.