HubPiWi Blue - USB Hub, Wifi and BT for Pi Zero
August 27th, 2016
Referencedesigner.com is glad to announce the launch of HubPiWi Blue - a HAT for Raspberry Pi Zero. The HubPiWi Blue extends three USB Ports, a Wifi and a Bluetooth on Pi Zero, while not requiring any soldering on its 40 Pin Connector.
The project has been posted on kickstarter and has crossed $5K at the time of writing.
The HubPiWi builds upon the success of HubPixed and HubPiWi - both of which are selling at ebay and referencedesigner. The HubPixed is also selling on amazon. The Hubpixed and HubPiWi were released for Pi Zero 1.2 as well as 1.3. However, since there is no new manufacture of version 1.2, we are not releasing HubPiWi Blue for version 1.2 or earlier.
Here are some short directions on how to get the HubPiWi Blue working with the latest Raspian (April 8 2019, kernel v4.14):
sudo apt-get update
sudo apt-get upgrade
sudo apt-get dist-upgrade
Reboot your Pi.
sudo apt-get install raspberrypi-kernel-headers
git clone https://github.com/lwfinger/rtl8723bu.git
cd rtl8723bu
nano Makefile
Change the line that reads:
EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_CONCURRENT_MODE
To:
#EXTRA_CFLAGS += -DCONFIG_CONCURRENT_MODE
Then save it.
make
sudo make install
sudo modprobe -v 8723bu
sudo nano /etc/modprobe.d/50-rtl8xxxu.conf
Enter this single line in the file you're creating, then save it:
blacklist rtl8xxxu
Reboot your raspberry pi.