Has anyone used the WiFly Serial Module?

Forum 2005-2010 (read only) Hardware Interfacing
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I'm interested in using this wifi module that sparkfun sells:

My hope is to use it the same way that the ethernet shield works. Does anyone know much about it, or something similar? I was looking into the La Fonera router option, but it looks a bit intense.

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Yep! Too bad the Arduino is not Wifi !!

I also needed Wifi for my project so my solution was to find a cheap Fonera, reflash it with DD-WRT or Open WRT.

It's apparently possible to use it through the serial port; it didn't work for me so I've added to my Arduino the Ethernet board in order to use the Fonera through ethernet...

Hope this helps,
Franck

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If you are reaching a point where you need to use wifi, why don't you switch to a different platform more suitable for those purposes?

I use a NintendoDS for the wifi, I have a nice touch screen, I can play audio, and then I connect it to a silly 8051 to do the I/O, PWM and other things....

I dont need to compile my code because all is done in LUA, a light scripting language, and I update the code though a webserver I have in the nintendo...

my 2cents
xchip

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check out my blog, I am using an NDS to control stepper motors , use an optical mouse as a low red camera... etc

I have an old nds, no camera, as soon as I get one I will add an extension to my LUA interpreter

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