I saw this thing (the ROVIO) in a Skymall catalogue some time ago...I thought it would be cool...I have webcams, and have always wanted to build some kind of mobile webcam...of course accessible by intertubes.
An unfortunate side effect of progress is compatibility. In the olden days we were content with our pre-wifi 1mb wireless devices...running open and naked in the wild...then we got Wifi at its 10mb speeds...still running open and naked. Then someone created WEP...then someone else created WPA...nobody used WPA...because you needed to buy more hardware to support it (or sometimes updated drivers.)
Then WEP was easily cracked...so everyone went running for WPA...and threw out anything that couldn't run WPA...(soon WPA2 will be the only thing...)
What is the point?
The ROVIO was built to support WEP. So this $300 device quickly became obsolete. Late last fall, early this year they released a WPA firmware, so we can continue to use these devices.
I got mine on ebay for less than $100. But getting it up on my Wifi WPA network took about 7 hours.
For those of you with this device...or who want one, go to this website for a lot of helpful info.
And here is my post on how I finally got WPA on it. A hint is you need password of 25 letters/numbers or less.
Oh if you still don't understand what a ROVIO is, then here is a video...
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