Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

 (gitlab.com)

51 points | by byb 3 hours ago

7 comments

  • polpo 25 minutes ago
    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).
  • drop-volley 1 hour ago
    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.
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    • bdcravens 57 minutes ago
      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.

  • ranger_danger 1 hour ago
    > I spent two days of a long holiday weekend and about one million Claude Code tokens building this firmware.
  • nicman23 51 minutes ago
    close enough, welcome back 56(0)k
  • byb 3 hours ago
    pico-usb-wifi is firmware for the Raspberry Pi Pico W that turns it into a driverless USB Wi-Fi adapter, enumerating as a USB CDC-NCM device.
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    • fragmede 2 hours ago
      Hah! That's neat! So much fun stuff to be had with that particular bit of kit.
  • andrewstuart 1 hour ago
    Google Gemini is that naysayer senior developer who confidently tells you it can’t be done.

    Claude is that easy to get along with smart hard working guy who just gets on with it and builds it double quick.

    ChatGPT is the eager senior developer who says it can be done but can’t actually work it out and fluffs it.

  • JSR_FDED 1 hour ago
    Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!
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    • byb 16 minutes ago
      It's one of the neat features of the AsciiDoc language. The user is able to change captions mid document, in this case :figure-caption:. AsciiDoc and Antora are things I've invested a lot of my time into

      https://baiyibai-antora.gitlab.io