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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. Re:ESP8266 is smaller and cheaper. by Gaygirlie · · Score: 4

    ESP8266 is a great device, but serves completely different needs. It can't act as a wireless repeater/bridge, for example -- it's not a router. Also, it only has ~80KB RAM and can be run at max 160MHz, whereas this device has a 400MHz AR9331 and 64MB RAM and runs Linux; you are basically comparing apples and oranges here.

  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.