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Re: wireless communication
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lugnet.robotics.handyboard
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Tue, 2 Mar 1999 19:45:32 GMT
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Kam Leang <kleang@eng/spamcake/.utah.edu>
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I'm glad you mentioned the Nuts & Volts article, "Naked Data"! I've used
the MING microdevices RF transmitter and receiver units with success!
The 1200 bps isn't fast but great for small projects such as mobile
robots. I used the MING RF units with the botboard and was able to get a
range of about 75' without an antenna! I haven't interfaced the RF units
with the Handy Board yet, but plan to soon for a robot project involving
multiple agents in a few weeks. I'm working on some form of social
behavior and control between multiple robots. I'll post my results if
anyone is interested. Also, I have pictures of my robot projects using
the MING RF units on my website at http://www.mech.utah.edu/~kleang
BTW the Digikey part numbers are: TX-99V3-ND and RX-99V3-ND and at about
$20 per set, you can go wrong!
--kam
On Tue, 2 Mar 1999, Jonathan Swaby wrote:
-->After reading some of the discussions about wireless communications, I
-->remembered an article from Nuts and Volts ( http://www.nutsvolts.com ) May
-->1998. The title of the article is "Naked Data", Explore the power of
-->wireless data communications using inexpensive off-the-shelf hardware. The
-->article was written by Ryan Sheldon (http://members.aol.com/ncdcat). The
-->article discusses using RF and IR as a 1200bps serial data link. The
-->article shows schematics for some of the IR devices. The RF devices used
-->are from MING (http://www.ming-micro.com/). Digi-Key carries their
-->products, and the cost for a transmitter and receiver total less that
-->25.00. I have not tried the products but it seems like a good place to
-->start experimenting. I know 1200Bps is not very fast, but some users might
-->find that data rate acceptable. Also, this would be a one-way link.
-->
-->
-->Jonathan Swaby
-->Computer Services Specialist IV
-->Student Affairs
-->Georgia Institute
--> of Technology
-->
-->404-894-5889
-->
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