It's really for a low bandwidth sensor network. The MRF24WB is a complete 802.11 implementation. They stuck a low end microcontroller on it for user programs.
By the way, realized my comment was a bit curt... This thing is cool. I wish that there were better options out there for emulating non-IP traffic over WiFi (just i2c or serial, or if I can dream servo pulses) for a low price.
That seems really expensive. I tend to shy away from anybody other than Atheros or Broadcom for Wifi chips though, if possible. They are really the only ones who offer reasonable driver and developer support.
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It's really for a low bandwidth sensor network. The MRF24WB is a complete 802.11 implementation. They stuck a low end microcontroller on it for user programs.
Nice Module,
Will not use it for my quad (my remote control works with 2,4 GHz, so it will not like WiFi ;)
but for other projects it could be interesting. The price (49 €) seems OK.
By the way, realized my comment was a bit curt... This thing is cool. I wish that there were better options out there for emulating non-IP traffic over WiFi (just i2c or serial, or if I can dream servo pulses) for a low price.
That seems really expensive. I tend to shy away from anybody other than Atheros or Broadcom for Wifi chips though, if possible. They are really the only ones who offer reasonable driver and developer support.