Re:FlashAir: Memory Card with Wireless LAN
by bootload on Friday October 02, 2015 @02:20AM
(#10317002)
Memory gets cheaper and cheaper but this Toshiba SDHC caught my eye because it has in-built wifi and AUD twenty dollar price-point for 16Gb... with some interesting options (iOS, Android, Web, Arduino) to hack. Version 3 is class 10 & has a Lua interpreter. Allows you to do things like talk to web services using RaspberryPi & (python) [0]
[0] "Download images from an authenticated Flickr account (or local filesystem) and push them wirelessly to a Toshiba FlashAir Wifi SD card mounted in a digital photo frame." ~ https://github.com/virantha/airframe
Re:FlashAir: Memory Card with Wireless LAN
by michaelmior on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:17AM
(#10317636)
Some devices require you to physically connect them in order to access the data. An SD card with WiFi allows you to easily access the data while the card is still in the device.
Re:FlashAir: Memory Card with Wireless LAN
by bootload on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:46AM
(#10317722)
"What is the point?"
Good question. I look at it this way, low cost & programmable. It's not open but for the cost and utility this outweighs doubt. I also look at small hardware, stuff that's cheap and hackable. So for the price of a card + usb power source you could have a portable web server. Think about that.
Re:FlashAir: Memory Card with Wireless LAN
by apostrophedave on Friday October 02, 2015 @06:17AM
(#10317637)
a few years ago i was looking for something like this for my car stereo. instead of having to take the sd card out of the car and change the music every few days i could just use something like this to sync across new music. dunno if it works like that though.
there are cards called Eye-fi that have done wireless for a few years now but they only sync across photos from a dslr/camera to your computer or mobile phone
more:
tutorials ~ https://flashair-developers.com/en/documents/tutorials/
book ~ https://flashair-developers.com/en/documents/books/ and https://flashair-developers.com/files/books/FlashAir_Doujins...
V3 info ~ http://www.toshibapresscenter.com/press-releases/toshiba_201...
[0] "Download images from an authenticated Flickr account (or local filesystem) and push them wirelessly to a Toshiba FlashAir Wifi SD card mounted in a digital photo frame." ~ https://github.com/virantha/airframe
[1] http://eyefi.com
Good question. I look at it this way, low cost & programmable. It's not open but for the cost and utility this outweighs doubt. I also look at small hardware, stuff that's cheap and hackable. So for the price of a card + usb power source you could have a portable web server. Think about that.
there are cards called Eye-fi that have done wireless for a few years now but they only sync across photos from a dslr/camera to your computer or mobile phone