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Wireless Robots
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lugnet.robotics
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Sat, 20 Nov 1999 16:33:03 GMT
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Original-From:
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Matt Ramadanovic <matthew.ramadanovic@yale.edu*StopSpam*>
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Has anyone tried to use wireless networking to control a legorobot?
IP programming in VB is easy and I was thinking of making a robot
which uses the RCX as its medulla and a stripped down laptop with
a PCMCIA Ethernet adapter as the cerebrum. The idea is to have a
digital camera mounted on the thing sending back video along with
passing instructions to the RCX (most of the bandwidth would be unused
if it was just sending instructions). The command console would sit on
a regular PC and would host an app that talks to the "brain" of the robot.
I don't have my kit yet so I have not tried programming a brick - though
have
seen the .ocx. I was thinking of creating functions in assembly and
compiling
a .dll in Delphi that VB programs could make calls to add functionality. Has
anybody tried this approach yet? Once I get the hardware, anyone want to
collaborate on a .dll?
Matt
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Message has 2 Replies:
 | | Re: Wireless Robots
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| I've been working on this exact same thing. To that end I bought a pair of wireless ethernet cards from Diamond and I plan to have the "laptop" which in my case is a PC/104 Single board computer, run Personal Webserver thereby contoling both the Cam (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
| | | Re: Wireless Robots
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| Matt, I have built a lego robot controlled by a PC, using an IR link to communicate commands. It used the same IR technology as Mindstorms, but had an omni-directional IR link on the robot. The problem is link speed. For reliable communication, you (...) (25 years ago, 21-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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