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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 dTal »

rvz wrote: post #42
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).

> Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. 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

Bad take. Some things are feasible and some things are not, "anything is possible" is a useless framework. Example: go convert two smartphones to communicate p2p over their 4g radios - it's all software!

LLM "awareness" is similarly irrelevant. They process information usefully, in a way grounded in reality, and that's that.

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

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Post by nolok »

arcza wrote: post #46

[flagged]

Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the conversation, except lower the level, and if a company has flaws as big as Microsoft you don't need to resort to childish name calling to expose them. This is my personal opinion.

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

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Post by drop-volley »

bdcravens wrote: post #8
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.

Wifi printer, where both your machine and the printer are connected to the same AP? yes If you'd rather just expose a USB printer to the network, a Pi Zero is a better fit.

No. The printer cannot connect to the wifi network that the macbook is connected to. I don't want to expose a USB printer to the network. I just want to allow the printer to connect to an AP created by the Macbook/PiZero/ESP32/insert_cheap_widget device and then allow the Macbook to connect to the printer's IP.

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

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Post by techbrovanguard »

nolok wrote: post #52
arcza wrote: post #46

[flagged]

Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the…

won’t somebody please think of the billion dollar company?

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

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Post by nolok »

techbrovanguard wrote: post #54
nolok wrote: post #52

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Meta comment to your meta comment : this is a very personal opinion but I cannot stop myself from thinking less about your message (even though I agree with it), just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft. You want to say Microsoft say that, you want to say Github say that but if you say a vaguely insulting name only to have to specify what you actually mean... It doesn't bring anything to the…

won’t somebody please think of the billion dollar company?

This has nothing to do with the billion dollar company, and I have no lost love for Microsoft.

It's about quality of discourse among us, and Microsoft has nothing to do with that.

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

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Post by moffkalast »

tehlike wrote: post #44
palata wrote: post #37

> 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?

Yes, the guy clearly spent more of his time than it's worth - you can buy a wifi dongle for a few bucks on aliexpress. But that's exactly the point of such experience. It's a challenge, and the guy/gal nailed it.

Well Claude nailed it, but they get credit for the idea.

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

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Post by Mashimo »

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...

Finally hacker news on .. Hacker News. No need for it to be economical cheap.

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

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Post by acimen101 »

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).

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

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Post by tehlike »

moffkalast wrote: post #56
tehlike wrote: post #44

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Yes, the guy clearly spent more of his time than it's worth - you can buy a wifi dongle for a few bucks on aliexpress. But that's exactly the point of such experience. It's a challenge, and the guy/gal nailed it.

Well Claude nailed it, but they get credit for the idea.

Yes, just yesterday I got codex to write me a home assistant plugin for reticulum lxmf. For the fun of it. It got things wrong, I got it to fix.

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

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Post by whywhywhywhy »

rvz wrote: post #42
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).

> Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. 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

Something doesn’t have to be sentient or have consciousness to answer a technical question like that.
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