1Sheeld: Can we turn our Android smartphone to Ethernet or WiFi router?

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I'm a beginner in Arduino programming, and curious about using sensors. After a research,
I found that 1Sheeld OR 1Sheeld+ helps us using sensors from smartphone.
My question is can we use smartphone's WIFI or connect to it OR create a web servers
from it?

Thanks for your time,
Appreciate your help.

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some of them yes, some maybe, but they have nothing to do with arduino. What's a 1Sheeld?

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Updated..

Hi WosiMosi,

Disclaimer : I am Eslam Ali from the 1Sheeld team and i was just inspecting stuff from the forum and i ran into your post :slight_smile: ,

So for your question:

My question is can we use smartphone's WIFI or connect to it OR create a web servers
from it?

1Sheeld has around 42 shields one of them is the Internet shield which connects to your smartphone via bluetooth .. The internet shield is a simple basic shield that helps you create Http requests and send it to your smartphone to do some actions over the internet .. But we don't directly support creating web servers through the internet shield and it may take a lot of effort to do so but until then you can turn your smartphone as a web server easily through simple steps using simple application ex. check this link So you can still access the sensors of your smartphone grab the data and save it over your smartphone and still access your smartphone remotely as a server or you can even take pictures and display them.

You can still check the Internet shield documentation from here and you can still check some simple examples that explains how you can deal with Http requests.

So finally to make it easy for you to decide choosing 1Sheeld here's a promo code "396F49FE35C9" for 1Sheeld+ that takes 10% off it's price, In the buy section after reviewing your order there's a promo code section just enter the code and you will get the discount :wink: .

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Hi blimpyway,

Simply 1Sheeld/1Sheeld+ are a bluetooth shield that uses your smartphones peripherals and turns them simply as an Arduino shields to prototype your projects easily :wink: . It has around 42 simple shields that you can access them by connecting your smartphone via bluetooth. Check it from our website here and check out the various amount of shields that may help you.

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hmm, that looks intriguing. Is that different from just having an arduino bluetooth module talking with an android script that reads all those sensors and sends/reads data to/from arduino?

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Nope it's not different .. it's simply a bluetooth module and a microcontroller along with an application on your smartphone that just translates the data coming back and forth from Arduino to smartphone, So we removed the hassle of getting some accessories were you can test your ideas and prototype them only with your smartphone and also the hassle of creating your application even on IOS or Android.

Moreover 1Sheeld is an open source hardware and software, even for android users there's an SDK for 1Sheeld application so that they can build their own application over basic protocol of 1Sheeld's application so you can add whatever you want and still you will concentrate only on your application leaving the communication and data packaging for 1Sheeld ;). Check out the Library,Firmware,Application and the designs all from Here.