Raspberry Pi Pico W as USB Wi-Fi Adapter

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• Would love a Bluetooth variant, so I can use Bluetooth HID devices on a host with no Bluetooth stack.

  WhyNotHugo 1m ago

• I had the same idea for a Plan 9 USB WiFi using an ESP32. You serve the wifi device as a ether(3) device which negates the need for janky side band config as the config is done over the same 9P interface. Never got around to it.

  MisterTea 52m ago

• Interesting that Gemini said it was infeasible. It should be aware that using a Pico W as a transparent ethernet bridge has been done several times over in open source projects, for example on BlueSCSI (emulating a Daynaport SCSI-Ethernet adapter) and PicoMEM and my own PicoGUS project (emulating an NE2000 Ethernet adapter).

  polpo 9h ago

• I recently bought Pico 2 W for DualSense (https://github.com/awalol/DS5Dongle).

  KJs6ZxELzQM37O 4h 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.

  byb 11h ago

• Interesting project.

  In a similar but opposite vein, I am going on a vacation and I wanted to share the stupidly expensive internet in my room at night with the family so I am likely bringing a raspberry pi to have as a travel router attached to my Mac. In this case, I can use the RaspAP project: https://raspap.com/

  This is slightly different in that I do want a NAT.

  bhouston 4h ago

• > Average 4.75 Mbits/sec throughput

  Isn't that slow for WiFi?

  I mean it's an interesting learning experience, but isn't that strictly worse than pretty much any WiFi dongle?

  palata 5h 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.

  drop-volley 10h ago

• close enough, welcome back 56(0)k

  nicman23 9h ago