WiFi for Arduino with Asus WL-520gu
I love Arduino but its lack of wireless bugs me. And it sucks that WiFi Shields for the Arduino cost as much a cell phone. I want something cheap. Turns out, small, cheap WiFi routers like the Asus WL-520gu can run the DD-WRT Linux firmware and act as serial-to-network gateway for Arduinos (or most any other USB device). Here’s how to do it.
(Hey, is this a Wifi-controlled BlinkM? I think it is.)
A quick video showing a router acting as a serial-to-network gateway:
This is not that new of a concept, hacking Linux onto a router for some [...]
[original story: Todbot]