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Re: Wireless Robots
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lugnet.robotics
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Thu, 25 Nov 1999 10:26:18 GMT
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In lugnet.robotics, Jason S. Mantor writes:
> You're not missing anything at all. You are correct that the
> communication between the RCX and the laptop isn't faster. But the
> communication to the now more powerful (because of the laptop) robot is
> musch faster (1MB/s Ethernet instead of 2400 Baud) I'll just be using the
> mindstorms for it's I/O capabilites and doing the real processing on the
> laptop.
That was what I was thinking too... I still am not seeing how this is going to
be faster than if the RCX was communicating directly with a stationary PC...
the only improvement is that the range of the robot is better (if the laptop
sits on it, but personally I wouldn't trust a Lego robot to carry around my
laptop...)
Actually, the laptop should be able to do everything that a stationary PC can
do (as processing power), so the only use of the network link would be for
things like video transmission, or connecting to Internet....
Or?
/Vlad
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| Vlad, Bingo. I want to be able to control the whole thing via a web page on the 'net and see images from the quickcam that's mounted on the beast. Much faster to transmit jpgs over wireless ethernet than over 2400 baud IR. BTW the lap top is a piece (...) (25 years ago, 26-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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| | Re: Wireless Robots
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| Vlad, You're not missing anything at all. You are correct that the communication between the RCX and the laptop isn't faster. But the communication to the now more powerful (because of the laptop) robot is musch faster (1MB/s Ethernet instead of (...) (25 years ago, 25-Nov-99, to lugnet.robotics)
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