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rew over 9 years ago

I've designed a board which plugs onto a raspberry pi zero to provide WIFI through an ESP8266 module on the serial port of the Raspberry pi.

 

Now you may say: Why not just use an USB-wifi dongle? Those are cheap and work out-of-the-box! You're right. But in some cases that's not the best solution: When you are space-constrained and need exactly ONE usb device, not having to use a HUB pays off. imageimage

I have not yet soldered on the connectors in these pictures, to facilitate other configurations should that turn out to be practical.

 

So...

 

If you think this is useful, If you have some programming skills, If you have a use for this.....

I have the following offer: At the cost of the components (EUR 2.50 for the ESP, EUR 1.00 for the PCB+ rest) and shipping (max EUR 5.25) I can send you one. The deal is that you'll try to make the wifi part usefull....

 

Of course, developing the software is probably more convenient on a "bigger" pi.

 

Should something essential be hooked up wrong. We'll respin the board and get you a new version. No charge. The main reason that I'm not giving the hardware away for free initially is that I don't want people to say: oh, it's free, lets get it, I'll decide later if I need it/can help and then of course nothing happens. By asking for a little bit of money I force people to think about it and scare away the freeloaders. Also, the offer applies "as long as supplies last", i.e. whenever I think there is enough activity...

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    RParkerE over 9 years ago

    This a really cool idea! However, I recently saw a hub that is smaller than that board and has a built in WiFi module its called the HubPiWi. It looks really promising. I have seen a few other hubs that are very slim and fit on like your board does, but none the less, great job and awesome project!

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    kurt_r over 9 years ago in reply to RParkerE

    I got 2 of the boards from the HubPiWi Kickstarter and apparently a whole batch was bad and the WiFi board couldn't get any good signals from the on-board antenna.

    The Pure USB one works great, though.

     

    @Roger  This is awesome, but I am more of a Hardware guy then software and programming, Looks real good though!

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    RParkerE over 9 years ago in reply to kurt_r

    That's good to know as I was looking into getting one. I'll probably end up disassembling a cheap usb hub and soldering it to the pi, or making my own contacts, so I can have just the PCB to limit the space the hub takes up, that way I'll have 4 ports and just use a dongle.

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    RParkerE over 9 years ago in reply to kurt_r

    That's good to know as I was looking into getting one. I'll probably end up disassembling a cheap usb hub and soldering it to the pi, or making my own contacts, so I can have just the PCB to limit the space the hub takes up, that way I'll have 4 ports and just use a dongle.

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    kurt_r over 9 years ago in reply to RParkerE

    Parker, Like I said the First ones that he made were 4 USB ports and they work Great!  So, you can find those on eBay for both Zeros 1.2 and 1.3 version boards.

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