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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...
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).
Unless there is a hardware limitation or the hardware does not support it, anything in software is possible.
Gemini and all these other LLMs are designed to convince you that they have "awareness" which they do not have any of the sort. They are neither sentient nor do they have consciousness
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).
You can ask follow up questions or point to potential feasibility and it will change its answer.
> Average 4.75 Mbits/sec throughput Isn't that slow for WiFi? I mean it's an interesting learning experience, but isn't that strictly worse than pretty much any WiFi dongle?
But that's exactly the point of such experience. It's a challenge, and the guy/gal nailed it.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
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
I wonder why not use the Pico's RISC-V cores.
In a similar but opposite vein, I am going on a vacation and I wanted to share the stupidly expensive internet in my room at night with the family so I am likely bringing a raspberry pi to have as a travel router attached to my Mac. In this case, I can use the RaspAP project: https://raspap.com/
This is slightly different in that I do want a NAT.