My idea is to have a RC car with a guntower and a webcam and controlling it from my computer. I’m new to this and I see there are alot of different electronichardware and software, this is where I get confused… What would be a basic remote control setup to start with?
I want to control 6-8 servos and have one (or two) videocamera and control it over wifi.
If you simply want to add a wifi camera to an RC car… Get the TrendNet wireless IP camera. We are working on a carrier for Lantronix modules that would allow control via serial port. But it’s a ways away yet.
Roving networks offers wifi uart devices.
The RN-122 looks to be the better choice with it’s dual UARTs. You’ll need to call for pricing.
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Else if you’re really good at electronics, you could possibly look into some IP Cameras and hack them open and see if they also include UART lines that you can tap into. This would not be an easy task. Or a cheap one.
Also with the roving networks “High-speed UART up to 460kbps” you could possibly attach an acceptable UART camera to the second UART of the RN-122.
The easiest way is just to buy the wifi uart, and a seperate IP camera.
It would be easier than buying a few wireless IP cameras, checking for TTL lines, and then hacking their firmwares.
Theres one more way i can think of, some linksys routers have UART built on, dual UART’s i believe, and hacked firmwares are available.
You could use a LAN port for a wired IP camera, and the routers UARTs to control the bot. It’ll be a bit big, but i have seen it done before.
You connect to the hacked router like you would any other router. It just allows you to tap into it’s UARTs.
It’s been over a year since i read about it so i don’t know which router for sure, but i think it’s the Linksys WRT54G.
Below are two wifi projects that are fairly simple to get started.
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It looks like a router with SSC-32 is my best option. I’d feel safer with a penguin in the car, it’s cheaper & webcam hookup would be easier. Found a hack with the Linksys WRT54 router:
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I have a ZyXEL 600 laying around so I’ll order a SSC-32 and start playing with that until a Linksys appears.
Would the PS2 Robot Controller be useful here? The router listens on port 123, so the PS2 control would have to send everything to 192.168.1.1:123 for it work.
So the setup would be: PS2 -> router -> SSC-32
Feels like I might be wrong here. Does the servo controller understand the PS2 or do I need something between PS2 & SSC-32?
Maybe PS2 -> PC -> router -> SSC-32 would be better. That way I could change/translate the output from PS2 (or maybe some other USB device) into whatever and pass it on.
