Why do the wardriving yourself when your cat can do it for you? Gene Bransfield gave this presentation at the recent DEFCON 22 conference, describing his efforts to use domestic pets wearing WiFi sniffer/GPS logging gear to essentially warprowl for WiFi hotspots. There’s also DoSdog, a standard pooch wearing a backpack concealing a Hak5 Pineapple, […]
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App note: Wi-Fi data logger
An app note from Microchip on Wi-Fi data logger (PDF!): Dataloggers are used in a variety of industries, some examples are: Environmental sensors Motor RPM measurements Location tags using GPS Temperature sensors Light sensors Motion sensors A data logger can be configured in a number of ways depending on the application. This case study covers the following application […]
A new Wi-Fi Shield to connect your Arduino to the internet
Boris Landoni from Open Electronics writes about a new open source Wi-Fi Shield for Arduino: Despite the proliferation of hardware to connect Arduino with the web, and especially despite YUN, we considered useful to design and propose a new WiFi shield for Arduino, which replaces the one already presented. This time we indeed added an interface processor […]
Arduino announces new Arduino Yun board
The Arduino crew has announced the Arduino Yun. This latest addition to the Arduino family is a “combination of a classic Arduino Leonardo (based on the Atmega32U4 processor) with a Wifi system-on-a-chip running Linino (a MIPS GNU/Linux based on OpenWRT). We embedded the Linux machine directly on the PCB of the Arduino Leonardo and we […]
CxemCAR 2 – Android controlled RC car with video, Bluetooth, WiFi
Johnik has developed the CxemCAR2 project for controlling an RC car using WiFi and Bluetooth. “On the Internet there are many articles on the use of RC cars with IP or Web-based camera. But most of them used a laptop or an internal router with Open-WRT or DD-WRT firmware. Viewing of the video and control […]
WiFi DipCortex
Carl over at SolderSplash Labs posted his WiFi DipCortex in the project log forum: Just completed another prototype, this one is a variation on our DipCortex, a 40 pin dip cortex M3 board. It adds WiFi using the popular CC3000MOD, giving you a tiny breadboard-able WiFi dev board. Because of it’s size and the thermal […]
BSidesRI video: modding the TP-Link WR703N router
At the recent BSidesRI conference in Rhode Island, USA, James Edge presented an overview of the TP-Link WR703N wireless router, and how it is modifiable akin to the WRT54G. (The manufacturer’s website does not contain documentation for the 703N. The linked doc is for the 702N, which has many of the same features and functions […]
DigiX – The ultimate Arduino compatible board with WiFi
Ihsan informs us of Digitstump’s inexpensive, powerful Arduino-compatible board with WiFi – the DigiX: Have you seen this DigiX board by Digistump? They are the ones who created the Digisparks as well. As a difference from Digispark, this time they are aiming high end region of the devboards.
Welcome Arduino Yún – the first member of a series of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux
Welcome Arduino Yún – the first member of a series of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux: Massimo Banzi announced it some minutes ago during his annual “The state of Arduino” presentation at Maker Faire Bay Area: Arduino Yún is the first of a revolutionary family of wifi products combining Arduino with Linux. Yún means […]
WiFiDuino = WiFi + Arduino
TheHardwarer has designed this WiFiDuino, an Arduino board that has a WiFi module: WiFiDuino is a new Arduino board that has a WiFi module. The circuit is based on the famous open source “Arduino Micro” from Arduino and Adafruit. To add WiFi connection, the new module “CC3000” from TI is used.
New TI CC3000 modules
video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player TI has announced the availability of their new CC3000 module. The TI CC3000 module is a self-contained wireless network processor that simplifies the implementation of Internet connectivity. The module uses TI’s SimpleLink WiFi solution which minimizes the software requirements of the host MCU. TI has posted information on the BoosterPack, […]
Tiny TL-WR703N router acts as a wireless USB port
Madox wrote a tutorial on how to setup the cheap TL-WR703N WiFi router to act as a wireless USB port for your Windows computer. This means that any USB device you attach to the router will be recognized by your own computer as if it was pluged into a local USB port. So it has […]
How to give your Arduino wireless capability
It seems the Ethernet Shield is unnecessary if you want to connect your Arduino to WiFi via the cheap TP-Link WR703N router. This is due to the fact that the router can be hacked with OpenWrt making it a Linux box with a fully functional USB. For those of us who are not afraid of […]
How to give your Arduino Ethernet shield wireless capability
Connecting your Arduino to the internet is cool, but it’s even cooler to connect over WiFi. Luca explains how to connect your Arduino Ethernet shield to a cheap WiFi router to give it WiFi access. If you want to boost the security and privacy of your home’s wifi network, you may buy residential proxies. Sometimes […]
Pinoccio – An open source wireless hardware and software platform
Bryan pointed us to the Pinoccio. It’s an Arduino compatible Wireless platform. It’s based on the ATMega128rfa1 microcontroller with an 802.15.4 compliant radio built in. It also features a LiPo charger and battery, making it easy to recharge over USB. The project is open source and hosted on github. Via contact form.
TL-WR703N router based WiFi controlled toy robot
The TL-WR703N is probably the cheapest hackable WiFi router out there. Using the openWRT firmware you can pretty much make it do what ever you want. Madox did just that. He connected it to an expansion board which drives servos, and made his robot toy controllable via WiFi.
BitBltBlade – WiFi controlled POV lightsaber
Madox designed the BitBltBlade, a WiFi controlled POV lightsaber designed to display images in conjunction with long exposure photography. The BitBltBlade uses the hackable TP-Link TL-WR703N router and Kean’s USB Expander board to wirelessly control a strip of RGB LEDs. The concept of operation is that the user would use their smartphone which can upload photos […]
How much current do small USB-WiFi routers draw?
Jbeale reviewed how much current small USB WiFi routers draw. His intent is to connect them to the Raspberry Pi which can only provide 140mA over the USB port. It turns out that from Internet connectivity the routers draw under 100mA, but if used in high speed LAN operations the current draw jumps over R-Pi’s […]
Using the STM32W-RFCKIT 2.4 GHz development board to sniff 802.15.4 traffic via Linux
Joe designed a 802.15.4 network analyzer for Linux with the STM32W-RFCKIT , by reverse engineering the Windows only closed-source application note AN3406. Summary: The STM32W-RFCKIT together with application note AN3406 is a nice low cost solution for diagnosing problems on a 802.15.4 (ZigBee, MiWi etc) network. Unfortunately the solution is Windows only and closed source. […]
Arduino WiFi RGB Ikea lamp mod
Open Electronics built an Ikea lamp mod using an Arduino with a WiFi shield, and a custom RGB LED driver shield. The mod allows people to to change the color and intensity of the lamp by accessing it’s web page. The system that we propose is based on the Arduino UNO, on which are mounted […]