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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 tonyhart7 »

byb wrote: post #16
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.

does the LLM speak old english ???

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

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Post by throwwwll »

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...

> The project is cool thought to learn about networks, NAT, Proxys, ect...

The author learned nothing though...

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

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Post by MgB2 »

JSR_FDED wrote: post #4

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

I'm kind of fascinated by the first diagram on the page. It sits so firmly in the uncanny valley for me and I can't put my finger on why. By itself every part looks ok and normal, but as a whole it just screams AI to me. I don't know if its the color choices or the composition or something else. It all just feels that little bit off.

I mean, I know its AI, the page says so itself, no one is trying to hide it. But it also just gives me AI vibes on such a subliminal level that I can't figure out why.

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

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Post by alexjurkiewicz »

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).

It was Gemini Flash, probably an even faster variant optimised for immediate response on search pages.

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

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Post by teaearlgraycold »

drop-volley wrote: post #5

Can you have the Pico operate as an access point? Would love to be able to use this to connect over wifi to a printer (printer in client mode), with the printer and macos talking directly over IP without needing to configure any other routing/forwarding on macos.

The Pico W can host an AP.
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