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I looked at it and priced it out.

I chose the MaxStream ZigBee board at $20.

Easy to interface and low cost.

I didn't need the 1 megabit transmission speed of WiFi. Who does for robot control?


Dan

Statistics: Posted by DanAlbert — Fri Jun 23, 2006 4:22 am

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On the robot this device connects via UART, I2C, RS485, GPIO high-speed serial I/O to the robot's controller (or maybe directly to Robotis RS485 servo bus?).
What's cool about it is that it runs a web server so you log-into the little thing with any browser and and you can configure the TCP/IP or UDP/IP tunneling parameters. So on the remote host side you just write programs to communicate with the robot via standard TCP/IP communications and on the robot, the controller or bus communicate with this little gateway in their native serial protocol.
Consumes 480ma.

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Sparkfun.com sells this wifi board for $125.

Sparkfun page and
documentation PDF

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Statistics: Posted by limor — Fri Jun 23, 2006 2:27 am

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