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

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Post by SecretDreams »

bookofjoe wrote: post #70
tehlike wrote: post #43

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Yes, but. I asked Perplexity Pro the same fact question (sports) three days in a row after correcting its error the first day and having the correction acknowledged with a promise to get it right in the future. Same error on second day, same promise. Third day: correct. Perhaps it needs to be in the "Slow" classroom....

Perplexity still exists?

I just got major Dotcom vibes

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

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Post by devsda »

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

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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…

> just because of that edgy wannabe way to go about naming Microsoft.

I think it stopped being edgy and transitioned to a symbol of user frustration the moment their CEO tried to address the slop without acknowledging their customer pain.

It is not much different from the micro$oft used here often.

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

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Post by wongarsu »

tonyhart7 wrote: post #31
byb wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 ???

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

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

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Post by forinti »

bhouston wrote: post #49

Interesting project. 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.

I like this little thing: https://openwrt.org/toh/gl.inet/gl-usb150

You can use it as a repeater, so the whole family can just use the same network/password we use at home. And it is so small, you can run it from a power bank for hours.

Unfortunately, they are not sold anymore.

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

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Post by vlovich123 »

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).

I just did this test with Gemini Flash-Lite 3.1:

> Can you use a raspberry pi pico W as a USB WiFi adapter

> Yes, it is possible to use a Raspberry Pi Pico W as a USB Wi-Fi adapter, but it is a project that requires custom firmware and a clear understanding of your goals.

Then goes off and lists the things you’ll need which at a cursory glance seems like good starting points.

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

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Post by LargoLasskhyfv »

Tepix wrote: post #69
hparadiz wrote: post #20

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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

FUZIX is a better fit. https://codeberg.org/EtchedPixels/FUZIX

In this case I'd say https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NuttX

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

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Post by ElectricalUnion »

rvz wrote: post #71
dTal wrote: post #51

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

You seem to be all over the place, most of it by not reading the parent's comment. So let's break it all down. > Bad take. Some things are feasible and some things are not, "anything is possible" is a useless framework. It would help if you quoted the entire comment rather than removing the context and further giving a very bad example afterwards: > Example: go convert two smartphones to communicate p2p over their 4g…

> That is a hardware limitation

Sounds like a intentional firmware (aka: software) limitation to me?

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