Would love a Bluetooth variant, so I can use Bluetooth HID devices on a host with no Bluetooth stack.
The default reference firmware for the nRF52840 Desktop Dongle does this. https://github.com/nrfconnect/sdk-nrf/blob/main/applications...
Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
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#102I would like to ask the author, what do they mean when they say 'I spent 2 days and 1M claude code tokens'
Did you completely vibe code this? or did you create a spec and asked claude to implement that? How many times did you need to course correct claude when it deviated if it did?
How much of your own experience as working in WiFi industry was useful while building this project? And what would be different if you had worked on this project without that experience?
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#103I need mesh too
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#104I’ve been looking for a good solution for doing the exact opposite, being able to connect stuff through USB in my bench, and see them pop up in my office desktop as if they were usb devices. The closest I’ve gotten is using a raspberry pi in the workbench, but for some weird devices that’s sometimes not good enough.
I've used USB over Network in the past, worked well on Linux
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#105Buried the lede by calling this a "usb wifi adapter" and not "magic Ethernet adapter that you don't have to plug a cable into". This will come in handy for my systems that are normally air gapped or currently connected to something else, but sometimes I need to get another network connection on there for a few minutes. I don't always have a USB ethernet adapter on hand or enough cable, but I almost always have a Pico around.
Also I posted this comment using one. Speedtest says about 4 Mbps. Surprisingly usable for web browsing though. Very nice tool! I'll be keeping the .uf2 file around for sure.
Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
#106I’ve been looking for a good solution for doing the exact opposite, being able to connect stuff through USB in my bench, and see them pop up in my office desktop as if they were usb devices. The closest I’ve gotten is using a raspberry pi in the workbench, but for some weird devices that’s sometimes not good enough.
In a Windows world I've used the hell out of these devices for licensing dongles on Windows virtual machines: https://www.silextechnology.com/connectivity-solutions/devic...
They're much cheaper than the competing devices from Digi and they've been bulletproof for me. I've got some out there running >10 years.
I've even done stupid stuff like hung a USB Ethernet adapter off of one and made it a NIC on my local PC to talk to another of the same unit hanging off that USB NIC (just to be cheeky-- not for actual use). Stacking things on top of other things is fun.
My only complaint is I wish they did PoE. I use a cheap PoE splitter for that but it would be nice not to have to do that.
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#107Interesting 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's often good to approach what llm said as a guidance, and not as ground truth. You can ask follow up questions or point to potential feasibility and it will change its answer.
I'm not sure even treating it as a guidance is the best approach, generally you should challenge it a lot (which is what CoT kind of emulates), you never know what it is confabulating and when it is correct.
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#108Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter
#109Interesting 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).
My experience with questions to LLM is that they mimic reddit a lot: ask them an apparently simple thing that is not possible, and they will bend backwards to tell you it's possible and give you tons of convoluted possible solutions. Ask them a thing that is possible but complicated, and they will be overly dismissive. The good thing however is that between those two banks there's a wide river of utility...more often than not they'll at least mention things I haven't considered before.
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#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
not very a lot are they
6 is all you need in all cases, depending on the unit.
I think this is more of a "can you do this?" rather than something useful. Sure you can have Pico with this firmware around, but you can have much smaller and faster dongle instead.
Pico is an amazing thing tho, so many weird firmwares that are useful in a pinch.