WiFi + Arduino

Sam Tarakajian

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Dec 9, 2011, 11:01:56 AM12/9/11

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Hi all,

If working with Arduino has taught me anything, it's that wires are the devil. I'm interested in exploring WiFi and Arduino, with the ultimate goal of having some clean, simple Arduino code that lets me open a TCP socket on my Arduino and write some data to a desktop machine. Probably some data like "Hello, World" or "Bachmann 2012". I understand that to make that happen I need a wifi shield; unfortunately the internet seems only too eager to supply results:

http://www.bizoner.com/arduino-wifi-ieee80211bg-serial-shield-internal-antenna-p-232.html
http://www.robotshop.com/anaconda-wifi-shield-arduino.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=jos
http://www.robotshop.com/cupperhead-wifi-shield-arduino.html?utm_source=google&utm_medium=base&utm_campaign=jos
http://www.linkspritedirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=63&cPath=6#googlebase
http://www.linkspritedirect.com/product_info.php?products_id=25&cPath=7#googlebase
http://www.linksprite.com/product/showproduct.php?lang=en&id=73
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9954
http://www.cutedigi.com/product_info.php?products_id=4361
https://diysandbox.com/our-products/arduino-shields/hydrogen

Does anyone have any experience getting something like this to work? I would appreciate the help tremendously.

Thanks very much,

-Sam Tarakajian

Ted Hayes | Limina.Studio

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Dec 9, 2011, 1:34:05 PM12/9/11

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It just so happens that this week I researched the Roving Networks RN-XV wifi module, I have a writeup here:

http://log.liminastudio.com/programming/getting-started-with-the-rn-xv-wifi-module-node-js

(hopefully my blog is working, it was experiencing some downtime today)

I like the module so far, it seems to work pretty well when it connects. I haven't been able to get it to work faster than 9600 baud yet, but it works!

—t3db0t

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derek enos

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Dec 9, 2011, 3:01:16 PM12/9/11

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I've used the WiShield, which is basically just a breakout for Microchip's ZG2100MOD module which has been superseded by the MRF24WB0MB. The MRF24WB0MB module itself is $24 in single quantities. I wasn't crazy about the WiShield Arduino library but was able to serve a simple HTML/CSS page over both AdHoc and Infrastructure connections with relatively little code.

-Sam Tarakajian

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trandi

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Dec 10, 2011, 8:18:26 AM12/10/11

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here's a post
http://trandi.wordpress.com/2011/09/26/vfd-clock-connects-to-the-internet/
on how to use a similar module, the RN-134 which is similar to the
RN-171 used by SparkFun's RN-XV and which I'm using directly.

The board using this module is not Arduino per se, but it's an
Atmega328 programed in C directly, so it's similar, though slightly
lower level.

Hope this helps,
Dan

On Dec 9, 1:34 pm, "Ted Hayes | Limina.Studio"
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> It just so happens that this week I researched the Roving Networks RN-XV wifi module, I have a writeup here:http://log.liminastudio.com/programming/getting-started-with-the-rn-x...

> (hopefully my blog is working, it was experiencing some downtime today)
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> I like the module so far, it seems to work pretty well when it connects. I haven't been able to get it to work faster than 9600 baud yet, but it works!
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> —t3db0t
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