I just came across two interesting wireless products by accident this evening. A small company called AeroComm (http://www.aerocomm.com) sells wireless printer tranceivers, apparently running at 2.4GHz. They just connect to the parallel port of your computer and the printer and act as a wireless parallel port tranceiver; no special drivers or anything. The cool part about this is they have up to 500 foot range and cost only $99/each. I'm trying to find out if they've used them for other applications (for example, if they are general purpose; you might plug one into your wearable and the other into a parallel->scsi, or parallel->ethernet connection and have a dirt cheap wireless ip connection) The second nifty product they have is a credit card sized developer card designed for general purpose wireless OEM applications. Also runs at 2.4GHz claims a 500 foot range, and they are selling them for as little as $75/each in large quantities, so single units might be just over $100. If they're designed for OEM, they probably are well documented and might be easy to create nice little parallel port ethernet tranceivers. Anyone hear of these guys or experimented with these products? -Paul -- R. Paul McCarty / DARS Coordinator / rpmc@troi.cc.rochester.edu/ x52059 317 Lattimore Hall, University of Rochester, Rochester, NY 14627 Computers don't make errors; what they do, they do on purpose.-Dale/KOTH
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