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Re: Bluetooth?
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lugnet.robotics
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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?
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> It must be a possibility, because somebody has already done it. Check out this
> Ericsson bluetoooth controlled camera/robot:
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> http://www.gizmag.co.uk/go/3837/
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> 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.
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> 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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