Eye fi hack

The Eye-Fi card is a memory card for cameras that wirelessly uploads photos to your home computer or to online services like Flickr. The whole thing operates out of a standard-size SD memory card, a technical feat so incredible that I was pretty sure it was a hoax until I did it myself. Works great, and it got me thinking about whether other types of files could be moved as easily.

The idea was to log environmental data using remote sensors, then have this card automatically send those data files out over Wi-Fi.

Despite these difficulties, the concept is not quite a lost cause. Whether any of this is worthwhile depends upon the application. To get the images uploaded, he added a call to GUP. Now all of his photos are transfered just as easily as with the standard Eye-Fi but without all of the middleman.

You can see a few photos of the dismantled card on Flickr. The board is manufactured by Wintec. So, question time. Have you already replaced your older Eye-Fi cards with the new ones? Did you switch to a different wireless solution entirely? Will you go back to Eye-Fi if you left? Is it just an attempt to save face, or did they simply not realise how popular their previous products were?

Let us know your thoughts in the comments. Update: 1st September, — The Windows version has been released today. So, Eye-Fi have now released the Windows version of the software. You can find an index of articles on the Eye-Fi website regarding the new utility here , but the important ones are below. John Aldred is based in Scotland and photographs people in the wild and animals in the studio. You can find out more about John on his website and follow his adventures on YouTube. Dunja Djudjic is a writer and photographer from Novi Sad, Serbia.

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