Fliike works with a Carambola2 embeded card (http://www.8devices.com/carambola-2). It's a card mounted with a Qualcomm/Atheros AR9331 microprocesor and a Wifi module. It's shipped with a OpenWRT Linuw distribution.
A Luci HTTP server (http://luci.subsignal.org/) is installed and listen to the 80 port. A built in application answers to this interface via a bundle of commands forming a JSON API.