Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

51 pointsposted 3 hours ago
by byb

10 Comments

polpo

26 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

an 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.

bdcravens

an hour 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

an hour ago

> I spent two days of a long holiday weekend and about one million Claude Code tokens building this firmware.

nicman23

an hour 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.

fragmede

3 hours ago

Hah! That's neat! So much fun stuff to be had with that particular bit of kit.

andrewstuart

an 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

2 hours ago

Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!

byb

18 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