"Eye-Fi" = Wireless Card?

[mtn_lion]

"Eye-Fi" is a new SD-card wireless adapter designed to provide wi-fi connectivity to digital cameras. It's also a 2GB SD memory card. How cool would it be if this could serve as a wireless adapter for the I-mate Jam/HTC Magician? Anybody think it could be made to work?

www.eye.fi

[GnatGoSplat]

I think this has too much built-in intelligence to work. It basically has its own embedded computer and operating system.

[sergioi]

I've already contacted the eye-fi, they said that it is not compatible with any Pocket PC devices. Too bad. :-(

[twaha123]

that does sound nice

[header2k]

What's about this?[translated]:
http://translate.google.de/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.worldofppc.com%2FHWTe sts%2Fsansdwlan.htm&sl=de&tl=en&hl=de&ie=UTF-8
or this:
http://www.psism.com/sdwlan.htm
or this:
http://www.maplin.co.uk/searchtemplate.asp?criteria=WLAN%20SD
or this?:
http://buysell.mypdacafe.com/10011.html
or my favourite[translated]:
http://translate.google.com/translate?u=http%3A%2F%2Fwww.insidepda.de%2Ftestbe richt%2Cjust-mobile-sd-wlan-karte%2C11.html&sl=de&tl=en&hl=en&ie=UTF-8

just search for "sd wlan" and you find thousand of cards

[jwy2k2]

What would be much more interesting would be to get eye-fi working in a camera and sending pics to your pda. Unfortunately eye-fi doesn't support adhoc. (so ICS on PC or wmwifirouter etc. on PDA won't work) There is a recent hack for xp using python that replaces the "eye-fi manager" so that you can bypass their setup. This doesn't give it adhoc just more functionality and privacy. With pythonCE can we do this on a pda?


http://tinyurl.com/bgnn56


btw. if you just want to get the pics uploaded from eye-fi in your pda, create a nested folder: DCIM\x in the root of the eye-fi card and put your pics there. no spaces in names, only .JPGs,
This was with the 2GB explore card, the newer video versions allow more file formats.

[wassif007]

Its Sound Nice to me .... i wanna buy it ....

[jwy2k2]

The new Eye-fi Pro 4gb cards are faster, handle raw format, and allow an adhoc connection. Cost more too, about $150

I still have an "Eye-fi Explore 2gb" and I really like it, but it doesn't do adhoc, only infrastructure. To add new wifi networks to the card you need to plug the card into an SD card reader in a usb port of a PC running the eyefi manager software. This means you need to plan ahead if going out with only the camera and not your PC. Captive portals won't work either, as there's no interaction between card and hotspot other than SSID/password. I have mine configured with about a dozen known SSIDs as well as alot of router default name/password combinations. Also, it comes with a year long subscription to the AT&T/Wayport network (mcdonalds, starbucks, etc)

It does a reasonably good job (in urban areas) of geotagging by looking at SSIDs in the area when a pic is taken ("fake GPS" similar to Loki or Google Latitude) This is with any SSIDs, not just configured ones... when the pic is taken it tags it with SSIDs it sees, and if it can't upload then, it will later upload with that data and consult the database to attempt to locate where the shot was taken.

I've got an old point and shoot Canon running CHDK. I can turn on the intervalometer or motion-detect setting, set the camera down somewhere, and if it's in a wifi hotspot that the card is configured to, I'll see the resulting pics on any internet connection by going to picasa or flickr, etc. Not exactly a streaming motion detect spy camera but it's fun.

Here are some collected links if anyone's interested:
Eye-fi Forum:
http://forums.eye.fi/index.php?sid=60e2a3c81a97ac107b7f643c1dbf0f43

CHDK (Canon Hackers Development Kit) If you have a Canon camera and don't know about this you should really check it out:
http://chdk.wikia.com/wiki/Main_Page

Linux Eye-fi config tool:
http://sr71.net/~dave/projects/eyefi/ (http://sr71.net/%7Edave/projects/eyefi/)

Jeff Tschang's Standalone Eye-fi server:
http://returnbooleantrue.blogspot.com/2009/04/eye-fi-standalone-server-version-20.html