Sure electronics WiFi web server module PIC24FJ256

This board has a MRF24WB0MB wireless module and a PIC24FJ256GB106 with USB (host and slave) capabilities. As a bonus the board also has a mini-sd connector for storing webpages. At a first glance the board looks very clean and well designed with a nice silkscreen. Cost was $59.90 plus shipping.

The package also contains a USB cable and an external antenna. The quality of the external antenna is a bit poor, but it will probably perform better than the PCB antenna. Both the usb connector and the mini-sd slot are mounted on the opposite side of the PCB antenna. 

MOSI --> RxD
MISO --> TxD
GND  --> GND
Vpu  --+
       |
3V3  <-+

A serial UART is used to configure the wireless settings, we used our trusty Bus Pirate.   Don’t get fooled by the silkscreen that says 5v and use this as pullup voltage! After we saw the schematic of this board (just recently added to the Sure Electronics download page) we found out it is input only.

We are using WPA2-phrase as encryption on our accesspoint, which took a while to calculate by the WiFi module. In order to speed thing up,  we found this page to convert it and offload the processor on the WiFi module.