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

Posted by timothy on Tuesday January 26, 2016 @02:34AM 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.

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Re:Nice and small by Gaygirlie · 2016-01-26 03:27 · Score: 3, Interesting

Why would you need to be a hardware-hacker to use these? You can just use telnet or any of the other vulnerabilities they found to access the device's internals via software and proceed from there to install OpenWRT-proper.
Re:$14 is a conservative price by Dagger2 · 2016-01-26 06:24 · Score: 3, Interesting

It's $14 if you buy it via the blog author's dx.com affiliate link. Or slightly less if you switch to one of the other colors; for some reason, he linked to the ugliest, most expensive color.