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(related) OT: is there anything similar to this/ESP8266 with wired Ethernet (PoE would be awesome, but not necessary)?

There are a bunch of boards based on the WS5100, but that isn't that powerful and doesn't have great tooling, and then you quickly end up with "full" ARM boards like the raspberry, with size and price to match.

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FRDM-K64F is a cortex-m4 with Ethernet. But if you want loads of tiny ones you should probably just built your own. It seems everyone prefers wireless these days.

http://uk.farnell.com/nxp/frdm-k64f/dev-board-mk64fn1m0vll12...

You may have a hard time finding great tooling AND a price lower than the Raspberry Pi. The MBED boards are very easy to use but are a little pricey. This board is an OpenWRT router chip (Ethernet and WiFi) for 15 Euros but you will have to rely on generic OpenWRT documentation:

https://www.olimex.com/Products/OLinuXino/RT5350F/

Yeah, but look at what a ESP8266 does and costs, so it doesn't hurt to ask ;) Raspberry with Ethernet mostly is a bit big, if they made a Raspberry zero with Ethernet for 15-20$ it would be good enough.

You can add a cheap SPI-Ethernet adapter to the Zero, it plugs directly: http://raspi.tv/2015/ethernet-on-pi-zero-how-to-put-an-ether...

Yes

https://developer.mbed.org/platforms/?connectivity=2

Full-sized boards and/or more expensive. The only one that looks really compact is 60-70 bucks.

It looks like the smallest of those WizNET W7500 boards is only $30[1], and includes a magjack on a carrier board (not shown in the mbed pictures) which is still fairly compact overall. The W7500 seems to include a Cortex-M0 that you can run your own code on, so it could be more interesting than the W5100 chips. I doubt it will end up being available in a $2 module, though.

[1]: http://www.shopwiznet.com/wizwiki-w7500econet

missed that one, thanks!

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