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OpenWrt Turns a $14 Card Reader Into the Smallest Wireless AP (livejournal.com)

Posted by timothy on from the latent-capabilities dept.

An anonymous reader writes: The Zsun Wifi card reader is a tiny micro SD card reader with WiFi connectivity. While people managed to access the device's serial console a few months ago, the plan was to eventually run OpenWrt since it's based on the popular Atheros AR9331 WiSoC combined with 64MB RAM and 16MB SPI Flash. A team of Polish hackers have managed this feat, and have now posted instructions to install OpenWrt, as well as other documentation: for example, a description of the board's GPIOs.

3 of 43 comments (clear)

  1. Wrong link by 110010001000 · · Score: 5, Informative

    The link for the instructions are: https://wiki.hackerspace.pl/pr... The link in the summary is just blogspam.

  2. ESP8266 is smaller and cheaper. by mmiscool · · Score: 2, Informative

    The ESP8266 microcontroller can act as an access point and a station at the same time. Can be purchased on line in quantity's of 1 for less than $2.00 and is programmable in C/C++. Supports GPIO on its 10 usable GPIO pins and also has an analog input pin. Is compatible with the arduino environment and has a large community at http://esp8266.com/

  3. Carambola 2 is similarly small (28x38mm) by ext42fs · · Score: 4, Informative

    The Carambola 2 has the same SoC and runs OpenWrt out of the box.