Links for 2008-05-06 to 2008-05-13

nick posted in links on 13-05-08

Official Google Reader Blog: Brand new Google Reader for iPhone – Look forward to trying this on the N800 which does struggle with the standard reader interface.
MAKE: Blog: Arduino wifi shield – The first wifi shield I've seen. But at $295, not something I'm going to rush out to get.
CrunchBang ~ GIMP Lomo Filter – Nice lomo effect filter for GIMP
Open Tech 2008 – 5th July in London. – "Open Tech 2008 is an informal, low cost one-day conference on technology, society and low-carbon living, featuring Open Source ways of working and technologies that anyone can have a go at."
Ethernet Shield V1.0 for Arduino Arduino Etherenet Shield with ENC28J60 SPI [] – £12.99 : nuelectronics.com, new idea, new project, new electronics – Another ethernet shield for an Arduino. Cheaper than the XPort based one, but not as powerful out of the box. Am currently working on an improved TCP stack for it.

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kyb, 5:44 pm, May 13, 2008

Have you considered using a normal ethernet shield, plus a wifi adapter, like the DLink DGL-3420? It’s still fairly expensive I suppose, and not as compact, but will do the job for less. I expect if you really want to make it smaller, you could take it out of the box too.