I think i fancy adding some wireless control to my little rover bot thing.
I fancy using an Xbox controller perhaps, or an old PC controller. I also might want to have the bot transmit some data back to the computer perhaps? therefore, I think running through a PC make the most sense.
What are my options for hardware. What are the advantages and dis advantages?
Bluetooth seems the most obvious, but i image the range is pretty poor?
WLAN looks like it has better range, but surely this would be much more complicated?
Or can i buy a Shield, and paired USB dongle for the computer?
Thats really helpful, thanks. Your description puts a whole lot of information i have seen all over the place, into one coherent description, which is much easier to understand. I have used serial comms on my DrawingBot quite a lot, so shouldnt have a problem there. my draw bot just sends and recieves in ASCII, and uses the standard instructions that ascii already uses. I could make up my own protocol for whatever i was doing, using a pre set “format” to transmit the data i wanted.
perhaps:
Start, X( For axis, forward and backward), a 0-9 value, Y, (for axis, left right), a value 0-9, End.
or similar
I am dual booting Ubuntu/Windows, but only tend to use windows for Steam.
I have an Xbox Controller output reading program already, so dont anticipate that being too difficult.
For “desktop” use, i might just get a bluetooth shield, and then worry about expanding it once ive learnt the basics!
