[NTLK] WiFi ESP32 to serial dongle

Elias Basse kd5jfe at gmail.com
Sun Aug 31 16:41:37 PDT 2025


All,

Has anyone used a wifi to serial dongle on their newton?  If I
remember correctly there was a list member that created an addon card to go
inside of the newton that did something similar to this a few years ago.

I found a project while researching that allows serial commands to be used
to establish a PPP connection to modern WiFi over the serial port of
classic computers.

I have a few ESP32's laying around and am going to create one from the
project below to see what I can do with it on the Newton.

Github Link:
https://github.com/ssshake/vintage-computer-wifi-modem/tree/master

Youtube:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S35-jFSMEf8

Best Regards,

Elias


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