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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by byb »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #4

Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!

It's one of the neat features of the AsciiDoc language. The user is able to change captions mid document, in this case :figure-caption:. AsciiDoc and Antora are things I've invested a lot of my time into

https://baiyibai-antora.gitlab.io

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by GL26 »

one million Claude Tokens (assuming you are on opus) = 5 USD = the very dongle you tried to replace. Add the cost of the rasberry pico, you'll have an easier time buying the wifi dongle. The project is cool thought to learn about networks, NAT, Proxys, ect...

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by lithiumii »

GL26 wrote: post #14

one million Claude Tokens (assuming you are on opus) = 5 USD = the very dongle you tried to replace. Add the cost of the rasberry pico, you'll have an easier time buying the wifi dongle. The project is cool thought to learn about networks, NAT, Proxys, ect...

except now we don't need to spend that $5

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by byb »

polpo wrote: post #10

Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects, for example on BlueSCSI (emulating a Daynaport SCSI-Ethernet adapter) and PicoMEM and my own PicoGUS project (emulating an NE2000 Ethernet adapter).

Exactly, bit banging an 8-bit bus isn't that different from pushing the data out of the USB port. It would be great to try an LLM trained on pre-1900 documents and ask it if powered flight is possible.

Great work on PicoGUS.

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by petesergeant »

andrewstuart wrote: post #7

Google Gemini is that naysayer senior developer who confidently tells you it can’t be done. Claude is that easy to get along with smart hard working guy who just gets on with it and builds it double quick. ChatGPT is the eager senior developer who says it can be done but can’t actually work it out and fluffs it.

ChatGPT is very good at code-reviewing Claude’s work and finds the howlers in it fairly reliably

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Post by puppymaster »

andrewstuart wrote: post #7

Google Gemini is that naysayer senior developer who confidently tells you it can’t be done. Claude is that easy to get along with smart hard working guy who just gets on with it and builds it double quick. ChatGPT is the eager senior developer who says it can be done but can’t actually work it out and fluffs it.

DeepSeek will just wing it and tell you it's done only for you to find 1 major + 3 edge case bugs.

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Post by mechazawa »

andrewstuart wrote: post #7

Google Gemini is that naysayer senior developer who confidently tells you it can’t be done. Claude is that easy to get along with smart hard working guy who just gets on with it and builds it double quick. ChatGPT is the eager senior developer who says it can be done but can’t actually work it out and fluffs it.

Gemini writes pretty shitty code in my experience. We tried it out for a grand total of half a day at work before deciding it wasn't worth our time and switched back to Opus.

ChatGPT writes like it's life depends on it and refuses to correct its own mistakes. It'll figure out a way to write 4k lines for something that could've been done in 500

Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by hparadiz »

matthewmacleod wrote: post #13
gavinsyancey wrote: post #12

You can do this by installing OpenWRT on the Pi and controlling it from the web interface.

But this is a Pi Pico, which is a microcontroller and not a Linux system.

Two arm cores at 133 MHz. That's already more powerful than my first computer. For $4. It qualifies as a computer on it's own. It runs Linux just a hacked version with an emulated MMU

https://github.com/tvlad1234/pico-rv32ima

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