On Friday 05 July 2013 05:15:29 Alexander Stephen Thomas Ross wrote: > So the wifi really is free? I can't find any thing of the forum. I knew > about this but had not realised what it meant, so thank you for posting.
I don't know how free/open the wireless stuff is. The announcements mention an OpenWrt variant called "Linino", but who knows whether there's a proprietary firmware blob involved? For Arduino people, the more interesting part of the announcement is perhaps that you can get a board with 802.11 for $69 which combines traditional Arduino boards (Duemilanove, Uno) with something that does wireless and is more than just an application-specific controller. Paul P.S. On the subject of firmware blobs, I saw this very interesting piece of news about Raspberry Pi and their blob recently: http://www.raspberrypi.org/archives/3534 As people said from the beginning, if the people who control the blob take their toys away then "playtime" is over, especially when you can't match the firmware knowledge to available RAM components when making your own. But this would also need the project to be open hardware and for normal people to have a chance of getting the other components as well, of course. _______________________________________________ Qi Hardware Discussion List Mail to list (members only): discussion@lists.en.qi-hardware.com Subscribe or Unsubscribe: http://lists.en.qi-hardware.com/mailman/listinfo/discussion
