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# An Ethernet WiFi Router On A Pi Pico 2W

**[Hackaday](https://daily.dev/sources/hackaday)** · 1 min read · 3 upvotes · 0 comments

## Summary

Matt Deeds built a WiFi router using a Raspberry Pi Pico 2W that implements 10baseT Ethernet via bit-banging in Rust. The project ports an earlier effort and uses Ethernet magnetics while handling everything else in software. It achieves full-speed transmit with reduced receive speed, and doubles as a WiFi router, making it potentially the cheapest Ethernet-to-wireless bridge possible.

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