njh/EtherCard
EtherCard is an IPv4 driver for the ENC28J60 chip, compatible with Arduino IDE observed · 2026-08-28
Health v2 · maintenance only
23/100
- Activity 0
- Release rhythm 8
- Longevity 100
How is this computed?
round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-02. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.
- gap_med: n/a
- age_days: 5481
- days_rel: n/a
- days_push: 1190
- n_releases_24m: 0
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1080 stars · 448 forks observed · 2026-08-28
What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded
EtherCard is an Arduino library providing an IPv4 Ethernet driver for the Microchip ENC28J60 chip over SPI. It offers high-level routines for data transfer and HTTP handling on AVR-based Arduino boards.
Use cases
- connect an Arduino to Ethernet with an ENC28J60 module
- send HTTP requests from an Arduino Uno
- build a simple Arduino web server
- transfer data over TCP/IP from an AVR microcontroller
- add network connectivity to an Arduino Nano project
When to choose
- you have an ENC28J60 Ethernet module and an AVR-based Arduino like Uno, Mega, or Nano
- you need lightweight IPv4/HTTP networking on a classic Arduino with limited RAM
- you want a mature, well-documented Arduino library available in the Library Manager
When to avoid
- you use non-AVR boards such as Arduino Due, Zero, or 101
- you need a different Ethernet chip than the ENC28J60
- your project needs more than ~1k of RAM for the packet buffer on a small microcontroller
Facets
library · maturity maintenance
networking http-client http-server embedded iot embedded-systems networking hardware embedded iot cpp arduino enc28j60 ethernet avr spi driver
2 sources
- readme: https://github.com/njh/EtherCard · fetched 2026-08-28 · fad519bf05e0
- homepage: https://www.aelius.com/njh/ethercard/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · f43f93c78ea4
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