The site is down but I'm assuming that this is making use of one of those old SD-cards that had wifi built in to turn old old point and shoot cameras into wifi devices.<p>I remember someone got linux running on one of them and ever since then I wish that that form-factor for small computing had taken off.<p>Imagine if the raspberry pi people made devices like this.
Since this site is dead right now. Here's something similar to read about in the meantime.<p><a href="https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-tiny-linux-server/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...</a>
I'm mostly of the opinion now that we should just treat our computers as a network of connected computers all doing special jobs.<p>For instance, why not treat a hardware RAID controller as on-board NAS, or even run PostgreSQL (or even just SQLite) directly on the card?<p>You buffer a bottleneck by controlling the ingress, the egress, or both (eg, a caching proxy server with gzip compression), but these days we don't see 'or both' as often as maybe we used to.
This is how you start ftp-server in the SD-card. I have
never found any other useful application you could start yourself:<p><pre><code> SDCARD/$ cat autorun.sh
telnetd -l /bin/bash &
tcpsvd -vE 0.0.0.0 21 ftpd &</code></pre>
Needs <i>moaarr</i> links for sinking time, like so:<p>[0] <a href="https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-tiny-linux-server/" rel="nofollow">https://hackaday.com/2016/06/30/transcend-wifi-sd-card-is-a-...</a><p>Modifying Transcend WiFi SD Card Firmware (fernjager.net)
Apr 25, 2014<p>[1] <a href="https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647434" rel="nofollow">https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7647434</a><p>[2] <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160509130411/http://www.fernjager.net/post-8/sdcard" rel="nofollow">https://web.archive.org/web/20160509130411/http://www.fernja...</a><p>[3] <a href="https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-transcend-wifi-sd-card/" rel="nofollow">https://jamesone111.wordpress.com/2014/03/19/exploring-the-t...</a><p>Transcend WifiSD / PQI AirCard / FluCard Pro, 16 Aug 2013<p>[4] <a href="https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=45820&p=1" rel="nofollow">https://forum.archive.openwrt.org/viewtopic.php?id=45820&p=1</a><p>[5] <a href="http://haxit.blogspot.com/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-cards.html" rel="nofollow">http://haxit.blogspot.com/2013/08/hacking-transcend-wifi-sd-...</a><p>[6] <a href="https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD" rel="nofollow">https://elinux.org/Wifi_SD</a><p>Now the only question reamains if this applies to any currently available product at all, or if things changed so much that it doesn't work anymore.
Site is down. The words 'WiFi-enabled SD card' makes my imagination flow. I think in the future you'll have one SD card with all the electronics/computing power and you just insert it into various dummy devices to change it's capabilities.
I remember when these cards were new, every month or so you'd see a story about someone recovering their fancy digital camera because the doofus who stole it didn't realize the SD card was phoning home.