hi
I have read the post in the forums here but am still a little confused on how to control my robot with a wireless hookup…
now I have a smirf so I can program but how do I get data back from my bot to the laptop…and I want to be able to use a pan & tilt camera too…
now I would like to have this so I can access a internet setup so If I’m out of town I can have the bot scan the house to ck it out…
big ticket --but I need to know what needs to be done…of course monies are always a problem…
I found something interesting the other day along these lines.
I bought a lantronix ubox2100 usb over ethernet server and plugged it into a dlink dwl2100ap wap configured as a client.
I loaded the software for the ubox on my pc, configured the dwl2100ap so the driver could find the ubox, plugged my microsoft lifecam vx-3000 into the ubox, and voila I could access the cam using it’s test/configure application and as a video source in nero and windows moviemaker.
So the thought is if I were to power the ubox and dwl2100ap from a battery the whole thing would be a fairly high bandwidth wireless connection for up to two webcams that has as much range as any laptop would.
Next test is I am going to buy a USB video capture dongle so I can hook my pchr133 video camera from supercircuits up to it. Should be interesting to see how well that works, and especially if it works at the same time as the vx-3000. This gets me two cameras over 1 wireless connection, if it works.
I was also thinking the dwl2100ap a little expensive to dedicate to this so I was going to see about getting one of the wireless gaming adapters used to connect an x-box or other ethernet aware peripheral wirelessley to my WLAN setup. Seems like any good device like this should work as well as the dwl2100ap in this application.
Taking this to the n’th degree I don’t yet see why an ethernet hub can’t be added between the ubox and wap device, nor why a usb hub could not be added to one of the ubox usb ports. I don’t have either kicking around unused but at some point Ifigure I’ll see if those two configurations work as well.
If the ethernet hub works (should) then I will be hooking a lantronix matchport NR (no radio, half the price) up and using that to talk to my ssc-32 and abb/bap.
now if only I had more time to play…
:mrgreen:
It depends on the 'bot, of course, but if you’ve got a serial port to control the 'bot with, then simply follow the tutorial for Bluetooth on the LM website.
