Google Glass wifi hotspot

Question

I need to turn my Google Glass as a Wifi Hotspot in order to send data from Glass to my Wifi Shield (Arduino).

Is it possible to set my Glass as a wifi hotspot?

Answer 1

Google Glass can not work as a hotspot. You could use a smartphone as hotspot and connect the Glass and arduino to that, then they can talk to each other over that network

Answer 2

No you can't. You cannot expect it to perform as your laptop or phone because instead of full-circuit card that supports 802.11 b/g/n with several antennas, Glass has only one wireless module on its board. That is from a Taiwanese company with module number WM-BN-BM-04 .

You can see the details about that module here or you can even buy it from Alibaba for $10 ;) . Even built-in apps such as video call doesn't run smoothly most probably because of this limited hardware.. But a bigger problem about Glass Wifi is that it only supports WEP -hackable by high school students- and WPA/WPA2. No enterprise. You can have a WIFI connection at home but unfortunately not at university, work etc. So with this in mind, you should probably design only at-home applications with WIFI.