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FlashAir: Memory Card with Wireless LAN

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Memory gets cheaper and cheaper but this Toshiba SDHC caught my eye because it has in-built wifi and AUD twenty dollar price-point for 16Gb... with some interesting options (iOS, Android, Web, Arduino) to hack. Version 3 is class 10 & has a Lua interpreter. Allows you to do things like talk to web services using RaspberryPi & (python) [0]

tutorials ~ https://flashair-developers.com/en/documents/tutorials/

book ~ https://flashair-developers.com/en/documents/books/ and https://flashair-developers.com/files/books/FlashAir_Doujins...

V3 info ~ http://www.toshibapresscenter.com/press-releases/toshiba_201...

[0] "Download images from an authenticated Flickr account (or local filesystem) and push them wirelessly to a Toshiba FlashAir Wifi SD card mounted in a digital photo frame." ~ https://github.com/virantha/airframe

Transcend also offer WLANSD cards which with a simple set of commands over their telnet port can run an FTP server.

I would have thought that Eye-fi [1] had a patent on this!

[1] http://eyefi.com

Are there any (cheap) devices like this that allow for custom firmware/binaries and BTLE?

2 years ago there was a buzz about hackable wifi sdcards. google "transcend wifi sd hack". e.g. this http://dmitry.gr/index.php?r=05.Projects&proj=15.%20Transcen...

What is the point?

Some devices require you to physically connect them in order to access the data. An SD card with WiFi allows you to easily access the data while the card is still in the device.

a few years ago i was looking for something like this for my car stereo. instead of having to take the sd card out of the car and change the music every few days i could just use something like this to sync across new music. dunno if it works like that though.

there are cards called Eye-fi that have done wireless for a few years now but they only sync across photos from a dslr/camera to your computer or mobile phone

"What is the point?"

Good question. I look at it this way, low cost & programmable. It's not open but for the cost and utility this outweighs doubt. I also look at small hardware, stuff that's cheap and hackable. So for the price of a card + usb power source you could have a portable web server. Think about that.

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