WizNet WIZ820io – plug in and go?

A little while back, I was musing upon the desirability of  the new WizNet WIZ820io ethernet breakout board. It’s a magjack and W5200 chip combination that (in theory) allows you to simply add network connectivity to your projects with a few SPI connections and a slightly modified version of the standard Arduino Ethernet library. At the time I was looking, the only place I could find selling them in the…

Wantage : WizNet WIZ820io

In one of those cases where you see the same thing mentioned in two completely different places on the Internet on the same lazy Sunday afternoon – and the second time you see it just reinforces the opinion from the first time – I’m on the lookout for a UK distributor carrying the new(ish) WizNet WIZ820io plug-in network module. It’s a breakout board with an RJ45 magjack and a W5200…