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\"\"Many people have these lovely little dongles from Edimax. They’re cheap, tiny and work very well with the Raspberry Pi. Dave Conroy has written up a method to turn your Pi into a wi-fi hotspot using one of these dongles (which uses the\u00a0RTL8188CUS chipset). This is particularly ideal if you’ve created a robot and want to control it from, say, your mobile phone.\u00a0Read how to do it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Many people have these lovely little dongles from Edimax. They’re cheap, tiny and work very well with the Raspberry Pi. Dave Conroy has written up a method to turn your Pi into a wi-fi hotspot using one of these dongles…<\/p>\n

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