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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 drop-volley »

bdcravens wrote: post #114
drop-volley wrote: post #53

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

That's what I meant by the Macbook and the printer connecting to the same AP. The Pico is the AP, and both your printer and the Macbook connect to it. (You could also use a cheap off the shelf travel router) What the Macbook can't do is have multiple wifi connections at the same time, so you'd have to disconnect from its primary network (which also rules out the Macbook serving as an AP that the printer connects to).

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

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Post by drop-volley »

teaearlgraycold wrote: post #40
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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Re: Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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Post by asc91 »

byb wrote: post #119
asc91 wrote: post #102

I 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 h…

Author here: this is actually a "side quest" which I alluded to in the README.adoc and another comment. I've had a few Spotify Car Things (SuperBird) sitting on my desk that I have not touched in a year because I was waiting for the community to come out with a non-tethered approach to reclaiming them. All of the existing continue to either require a host PC, phone, or RPI Zero. I want to deploy these throughout my h…

I'm only starting out in embedded software domain, and the way you describe your 2 day side quest feels like Dumbledore showing some magic trick to Harry.

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

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Post by xondono »

ianburrell wrote: post #118
xondono wrote: post #96

I’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.

There USB over IP. I think Linux supports it. It could be possible to have Pico implementation, use WiFi like this, and connect to computer or another dongle.

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

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Post by dTal »

306bobby wrote: post #92
ElectricalUnion wrote: post #90

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> That is a hardware limitation Sounds like a intentional firmware (aka: software) limitation to me?

If the hardware won't accept custom firmware without signed with a private key, I'd say that's hardware limitation

Bits is bits - so sorry you couldn't figure out the right bits to make the hardware do what you want, but those bits do exist and they are findable in principle - it's still all software! Your lack of knowledge of the signing keys is qualitatively no different than your lack of knowledge of any other undocumented proprietary information required to program the chip. Frankly you'd struggle even with the keys.

Infeasible? Oh my yes. Impossible? No. That's the point - there is a distinction.

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

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Post by tonyhart7 »

wongarsu wrote: post #84
tonyhart7 wrote: post #31

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does the LLM speak old english ???

English around 1800-1900 reads almost like modern English. At least if the author didn't write in an overly pretentious style, which was more common back then

I don't think people speak old english in 1800s

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

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Post by byb »

asc91 wrote: post #133
byb wrote: post #119

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Author here: this is actually a "side quest" which I alluded to in the README.adoc and another comment. I've had a few Spotify Car Things (SuperBird) sitting on my desk that I have not touched in a year because I was waiting for the community to come out with a non-tethered approach to reclaiming them. All of the existing continue to either require a host PC, phone, or RPI Zero. I want to deploy these throughout my h…

I'm only starting out in embedded software domain, and the way you describe your 2 day side quest feels like Dumbledore showing some magic trick to Harry.

I'm flattered. You asked very good questions. I'd be happy to de-mystify it with a longer conversation. Find me on LinkedIn: 白一百
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