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Re: Bluetooth?
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lugnet.robotics
Date: 
Tue, 10 Jan 2006 03:21:49 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Mike Walters wrote:
In lugnet.robotics, Rob Hendrix wrote:
I'm not up to speed on bluetooth technology, but I got to thinking about a
possibility of something similar to Vision Command using Bluetooth.  Can a
computer with bluetooth talk to more than one device at once?

The idea is to have a wireless bluetooth camera using software on your
computer to control your NXT robot in real time.  You could mount your
camera on your bot and have it "see".  The camera would have software (on
the pc) that interacted with your NXT bot much like the Vision Command did
(only wirelessly!).  The software could then send commands to your bot or
run certain code that you previously downloaded to the NXT unit.  Is this a
possibility?


It must be a possibility, because somebody has already done it.  Check out this
Ericsson bluetoooth controlled camera/robot:

http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3837/

Unless I'm missing it, however, the article doesn't mention resolution or frame
rate.  It can't be too good, considering the bandwidth of bluetooth.

Since bluetooth is relatively low bandwidth (1mbps), another option which may
work even better is to mount a 802.11g wifi camera on your robot.  Such cameras
do exist (for a price) and because they are 802.11g, you could send full motion
video to your PC.

Yeah, but the real advantage of bluetooth IMO is its inheritly designed for ad
hoc networking, i.e. multiple NXTs forming a small piconet.  This could be
multiple NXTs witin the same construct or multiple bots working together!

Btw, I've read several places that in the demos they had a robot controlled by
Bluetooth! :-)!

-aps



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(...) It must be a possibility, because somebody has already done it. Check out this Ericsson bluetoooth controlled camera/robot: (URL) I'm missing it, however, the article doesn't mention resolution or frame rate. It can't be too good, considering (...) (18 years ago, 10-Jan-06, to lugnet.robotics)

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