Hardware Geek favorites: WiFi-enabled Arduino board

Hardware Geek favorites: WiFi-enabled Arduino board2013-05-20 11:38 original Zong ren li 0 Reviews

Many hardware players have recently used the Arduino Development Board to do robots, wearable devices, but they are suffering from the Arduino Development Board generally does not support WiFi, can not wirelessly connect your Arduino to the Internet. Now an Arduino Y UN company announces its first built-in WiFi-enabled Arduino Development Board, which is 2-3 times cheaper than buying another WiFi expansion board.

With some shiny new hardware ideas, refresh your coding, come up with a design, and be ready to start building a prototype. So you need a project chip as the "brain" of the machine, the best Development Board is the Arduino, but the only problem is that your development board does not support WiFi.

Before Arduino to support WiFi, but you only have two options:

1) buy a wifi extension board, just like the WiFi function in your phone. The Arduino WiFi expansion board wirelessly connects cookies to the Internet. Connect to your wireless network and transfer Some simple instructions over the network to start controlling things around you. This is an optional accessory for Arduino, which makes it more powerful. The disadvantage is that the WiFi expansion board is generally very expensive, is the Arduino itself 2-3 times the price, bulky, not easy to find.

2) Another method is a clone of a built-in wifi in seconds, usually created by an unofficial third party, and you have to find someone familiar with this type of board in the community.

On this week's Maker Faire, an Arduino Yún company announced the first Arduino box with a built-in WiFi capability.

This is a part of the Arduino part of the Linux system, the traditional part is to run your code, read the sensor, and then a very small Linux driver chip, both when the WiFi receiver and can when the transmitter, all hardware projects online HTTP work can be completed. And you can reprogram the Arduino Yun via WiFi, without the need for a USB cable at all.

So what is this action for you? Hardware DIY One of the most popular platform Arduino, built-in WiFi, so that the whole project to connect to the Internet has become simple, 30 minutes before the guests come, you can confidently say you want a coffee pot, can, of course, you can I want a PayPal account to donate money when the automatic alarm thing, OK. Of course.

This high-quality, support WiFi, compatible Arduino board projects will achieve what kind of results. It is estimated that this product will be shipped out at the end of July, twice times more expensive than an Arduino board that does not support WiFi, but much cheaper than buying an Arduino board plus a WiFi expansion board.

Via TC

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