Eye-Fi Wireless SD card: Propeller Hackable?

Oldbitcollector (Jeff) · 2011-09-27 11:13

http://www.eye.fi/how-it-works/basics

Propeller Hackable? I could think of some pretty cool uses for Wifi connectivity via existing SD.

OBC

mindrobots · 2011-09-27 11:40

Jeff,

I ran across the documentation for my Eye-Fi card last night and started thinking along similar lines. Mine might be a (significantly) older version, I don't remember having the USB/SD adapter they show. I'll need to dig around for it and see.

Certainly could do some data logging to a PC. I'm not sure if it can talk from the PC back to the Eye-Fi except maybe for file deletion.

If I can find all the parts to mine, I'll be happy to send them down to Orrville for a loan. You will probably get around to hacking with it MUCH sooner (and more capably) than I will!!

Peter KG6LSE · 2011-09-27 12:10

I have one .. I doubt it can do more then Photos as the firmware is really locked up .

BUT a SDIO WiFI form amazon may work as it is just a SDIO device not a SD storage card that can leak data to a WiFi chip .

Cluso99 · 2011-09-27 18:30

Nifty concept but looks like it only sends files one way. Be nice if it cold be hacked though. A 4G card and wifi.

Peter Jakacki · 2011-09-27 19:32

I am playing with some of these 4G X2 and 8G Pro cards at present. I have Data Loggers that could benefit from having a transparent interface directly to the files on the card. I have already tricked the software into sending some files other than photos or videos but I will probably chase the Eye-Fi guys to see if there is a firmware update allowing access to any file. I will post as soon as I make some progress.

Brian Carpenter · 2011-09-27 19:56

Peter,
I asked the guys at Eye-fi that very question a few years ago when there product first entered the market. They had no interest at the time. I hope it is a different story now.

Peter KG6LSE · 2011-09-27 20:04

Brian Peter Et All SDIO WIFI cards ..>>

http://www.amazon.com/Generation-Spectec-802-11b-Smartphones-Laptops/dp/B000BYR972/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1317178876&sr=1-13

http://www.amazon.com/Spectec-SDW-821-Network-adapter-802-11b/dp/B000RLBDIA/ref=pd_cp_e_1

If you now how to set it up ...... it may need only a few commands . Who knows .

Peter Jakacki · 2011-09-27 20:26

Peter KG6LSE wrote: »

Brian Peter Et All SDIO WIFI cards ..>>

http://www.amazon.com/Generation-Spectec-802-11b-Smartphones-Laptops/dp/B000BYR972/ref=sr_1_13?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1317178876&sr=1-13

http://www.amazon.com/Spectec-SDW-821-Network-adapter-802-11b/dp/B000RLBDIA/ref=pd_cp_e_1

If you now how to set it up ...... it may need only a few commands . Who knows .

The advantage of the Eye-Fi card is that it is a normal SD memory card and the WiFi is transparent to the target. So we're not trying to use the card for a general-purpose WiFi connection as there are much better ways of doing that plus it would load up the Prop's resources. However it's a great way to retrofit SD card products to make them accessible over WiFi (assuming we can).

Thanks for the links though.

Peter KG6LSE · 2011-09-28 10:25

Peter I was wondering on the load for the prop . If it was me at parallax I would be useng one of those SDIO chips to make my WiFI adapter work and selll a WIFI spinnnernet .

have its on board Prop handle the heavy lifting ..

now its just a SD slot some GPIOs and a most of al software .

I recon that if a old Win CE device can boot that card then I am shure iur prop can ..

peter

Eye-Fi Wireless SD card: Propeller Hackable?

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