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|   Aug 21, 2009 at  1:42pm

Convenient. I wonder why divider resistor pads weren't added to this? Since the device is not 5V tolerant you have to divide down to 3.3 (or 1.2 in some cases), that would save some futzing about if connecting to 5V stuff or in the case of the sens inputs, even 3.3V.

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|   Aug 22, 2009 at  1:45am

Would it be possible to interface this with Arduino?

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|   Aug 22, 2009 at 11:54am

Yes.

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|   Aug 25, 2009 at  2:30am

how can we use it with arduino?

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|   Aug 26, 2009 at  5:52am

Can you make a webserver running with this and arduino? I am wondering if i can replace WiShield with this thing.

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|   Oct  1, 2009 at  7:47am

Could You provide Eagle file for this module?

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|   Oct  1, 2009 at  9:19am

Certainly.
Eagle Files

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|   Dec  1, 2009 at 10:29pm

for more arduino friendly, consider this one -
http://asynclabs.com/store

The down side is it only has b instead of b/g mode.
Maybe okay for most applications.

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|   Dec  2, 2009 at  1:43am

can this module be used to transmit output from

http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=9334

to a laptop ?if yes what will be the range ? else any other suggested setup ?

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|   Dec  2, 2009 at  3:09am

You'd need some sort of controller (like an Arduino) to configure the WiFly, "send the snapshot command" to the camera and then send the jpeg data to the WiFly. Raw jpeg data over a socket connection isn't terribly useful without something on the server side. So, you'd also need a simple server daemon of some sort to receive the data and save and/or display it.

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|   Dec  2, 2009 at  4:58am

am planning to use this in my UAV project. can you please specify the approx range of this module in LOS ? if implemented, can this module handle both command and video signals ? which is the best suitable controller for this application ? arduino pro/mega / arm ??

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|   Dec 21, 2009 at 11:31pm

Got a few questions:

1. Has anyone successfully integrated this with an iPhone? Just got my BlueSmirf module today and found out it can't be used on the iPhone. :( Looking for another way to integrate the devices (iPhone with what I'm building)

2. I'm thinking of including a Zigbee module on the same board for a sensor mesh network. Any conflicts with the wireless frequencies?

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|   Jan  7, 2010 at 12:23pm

I, too, am looking to build a wireless sensor -> iPhone arrangement. At first, I thought bluetooth was the clear choice, but I ran into the same roadblock as you. If you manage to crack that nut, broadcast it. I will do the same. In the meantime, I'm just going to be doing Ad-Hoc WiFi with this module. Hope the iPhone can connect Ad-Hoc to it. Haven't found any who's tried yet. I'll know in a couple weeks, though.

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|   Apr  6, 2010 at  1:06pm

How did you make out with the iPhone connection? I'm about to go down this road and would love to here the results of your experiment.

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|   May 27, 2010 at  2:21pm

I've had success connecting to the WiFly in ad-hoc mode from a 1st gen iPod Touch, and an iPhone. I've used it with a simple embedded web-server, for serving up pages for configuration/data-views/control/etc. Ad-hoc networks can be a pain to setup in general, but it was actually pretty easy from the iPod, and it even remembers the network and can connect automatically to it when it's available. I think it's better than a bluetooth approach for interacting with hardware, since you'd really need a native app on your iPhone/Blackberry/Android to interact with it, and with this any device with WiFi can (theoretically) interact.

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|   Jan 17, 2010 at  9:00pm

Finally got this working through a terminal program; I'll be using an AVR controller to send it serial commands in the next few weeks. My notes are here: http://weakorbit.com/pnotes (search wifly). I was pretty clueless about all things 'internet' when I started so hopefully some people will find what I documented useful.

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|   Mar 14, 2010 at  5:45pm

Anywhere to get these cheaper because I need 10 of them. PLEASE REPLY.

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|   Mar 26, 2010 at 10:38am

This board is absolute junk! It gets errors when trying to update it's firmware over ftp. It DOES NOT SUPPORT the listed data rates. The most you can get if you're lucky is 460kbps, or 230kbps if you're not that lucky. This board has been nothing but problems and Roving Networks have been unwilling to give us the support we need!!! Unless you're a company who can make them a ton of money you can forget about getting any of the nice features to work, they just won't help you! SDIO, SPI forget it. Analog in forget it. DMA to get the claimed 2.7Mbps on UART forget it. Waste of money!!!

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|   Apr 14, 2010 at  4:46am

Has anyone besides king henry the VIII tried this board? And tried to squeeze out the highest bit-rate possible?

I am looking for a WiFi device that is all but a PCI/Conventional PCI(mini PCI, found on laptops).

I'll be needing a throughoutput of atleast +-24Mbps (of raw data that is, thus excluding all the handshaking and protocol stuff).

It'll be placed in a crowdy environment where the WiFi device itself will be placed in a sturdy plastic box. AP will be atmost 15meters away