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Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter (gitlab.com)
28 points by byb 2 hours ago
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drop-volley 35 minutes 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.
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bdcravens 6 minutes 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.

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ranger_danger 32 minutes ago
> I spent two days of a long holiday weekend and about one million Claude Code tokens building this firmware.
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byb 2 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.
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fragmede 1 hour ago
Hah! That's neat! So much fun stuff to be had with that particular bit of kit.
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andrewstuart 15 minutes 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.

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JSR_FDED 42 minutes ago
Love the way the author labels each of his diagrams as “AI Slop”!
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