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Those things are ancient, too. It's annoying that there are no tiny cheap Linux SBC's like that, which you can straightforwardly buy.
Apple's old airport express was kinda that. You plugged it into the wall and it was a wifi repeater, had a USB port to make your wired printer wireless, and a 3.5mm jack for airplay to speakers. It was about the size of a macbook power brick, but for 2004 you can't complain.
Technically it runs UNIX…
But there are Wifi plugs you can command via network address.
Tasmota ones, but the esp32(?) was already mentioned. It's in the greeni wifi plugs, if I recall, and so many others.
Someone posted this further up I remember when they came out but I don't know much about them
https://feddit.uk/comment/10593066
What about this one? https://vocore.io/
True, I remember those, didn't realize they were still around. At that point I'd just as soon use a pi zero though.
@r3wald @solrize
That is REALLY cool. I have never seen that! I am going to check that out. It makes a RasperryPi or BananaPi look huge! lol.
Luckfox Pico Mini might be you're looking for. It's a Linux SBC that costs around 10 USD, in a Teensy/Raspberry Pico or even smaller formfactor.
Good to know about, thanks. The wifi version is bigger but the non wifi version is still interesting.
I mean, there's the Transcend SD's...
@solrize I've seen CF wifi cards too heh
Along the same lines as the Transcend card is Blue SCSI which is a little raspberry pi based SSD for vintage Macs that lets you FTP into the drive from a modern machine for file transfer.