WIFI on a BS2

dpeterson3

I had an interesting idea for a project. The wireless mic band is being limited by the FCC, so why not create VoIP mics? I can get A/D converters cheap, and routers are cheap. I am also a good enough programmer to write an app to do the mixing. The problem I run into is getting the mics on a network. I figure I can take sound output and·feed it to a BS2. The BS2 can handle creating the·network stream.·I want to take a BS2 and interface it with one of those USB wifi adapters you can get cheap at any major electronics store. The problem is, I am not sure how to do it. I am looking at the FT232 USB to serial converter, but I am not sure if it will work. Has anyone got a stamp to interface successfully with WIFI or am I trying to do the impossible here?

thanks in advance

Mike Green

The Stamps are not fast enough nor do they have enough memory to handle the datastreams. There are WiFi modules that interface over a serial connection that theoretically could be used. Maximum Baud is typically 115KB which could handle a lo-fi audio stream, but the Stamp can't provide it.

You could use a Propeller which can do the ADC itself and can handle the Ethernet (see ucontroller.com/documentation/PropNICDoc.html and www.deepdarc.com/ybox2/) although you'd have to write your own VoIP protocol stack.

dpeterson3

Thanks. I was actually planning on using the Stamp as a test and then a Pic for the finial model. The code is essentially the same, but the PIC's are much faster and smaller.I look into the Propeller chips. Its been a while since I have checked into what's out there now.