31 July 2013

There's been a product category we've been working on for a long, long time. And that's getting the Internet in the hands of everyone with a simple low end microcontroller.

The problem is that TCP/IP, the protocol that underpins the Internet, is inherantly complex and requires a lot of memory to run. And the specification for WiFi (802.11) is over two thousand pages.  Yes, we even looked at writing our own WiFi stack.

Please welcome the humble WRL-3000. We're super excited about this little guy since any low-end microcontroller can now connect to the internet at a super low price.  Yes, it's so cheap that you can connect just about everything to the Internet!  The design is module-level approved by the FCC, and we have had much pleasure in getting sensor data up to the internet and finding out what the weather is going to be tomorrow to put on LED matrix displays.

We would like to acknowledge our beta test program participants for helping out withe the software development for this module.

We have made an initial manufacturing run of these modules but at this price they won't last. Get them while they're hot!