Yup. It was used to transfer photos from a camera to a phone back in the day when cameras didn’t have wireless transfer features.
I recently looked into them. They seem shit. Dodgey outdated apps to make them work and such.
That’s another reason why they’re kinda dead now. Closeted apps they have to maintain just to keep that garden walled, and it was a cost they decided they also didn’t want to spend.
I tried them with a few different cameras. They sucked. They wouldn’t reliably connect to Wi-Fi, and they didn’t reliably upload images.
Too bad it should be the simplest way to add wifi file transfer to a 3d printer
Yep, had one for my Treo in 2006
Things like this would be so useful in the tinkering community, so many motherboards and such use micro SD cards or USB drives as a primary storage device. Before I gutted my 3d printer and put a computer inside it, I had to schlep the micro SD card back and forth from the printer to the computer room… being able to send it wireless would’ve been great. Looked into it at the time but as other have said all the current solutions are dog shit.
Well, Octoprint worked well for me.
So what does it do, exactly? Can it act like a NIC or something?
Acts as access point, if you connect to it from another device you get access to stuff on the SD card (via app or built-in webserver)… at least in theory. Quality varies.
The old Toshiba ones could run a WebDAV server on them and you could log in with a PC and upload files. Was pretty sweet in a flash cart.
There are also horseless carriages.
Still use mine in my cannon point and shoot. (Just as a storage device though) The software support has long ago suckified when “cloud” became all the rage, but it was awesome to sync camera <-> PC without messing with adapters or cables.
