Bioloid Premium Kit & Wifi

[retro_boy]

Hi,

I am building the Bioloid Premium kit and wondered if I need to add anything else to it in order to control it over wifi?

[i-Bot]

I am not aware of any 'off the shelf' wifi solutions for controlling the Bioloid Premium.

You may be able to put something together with a Wifly module, , OpenPicus or a Mini EMB Wifi.

http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... ts_id/1303
http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... ts_id/1463
http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... ts_id/1757

[retro_boy]

I have the Zig-100 Zig-110 with my Bioloid Kit

http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... ts_id/1062

Would that be something I could use?

[garycmartin]

I have the Zig-100 Zig-110 with my Bioloid Kit

http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... ts_id/1062

Would that be something I could use?

Aha I think you foxed people with the mention of wifi (that is a licensed trade name for the iEEE 802.11 standards commonly used to network computers). If you are just looking to wirelessly communicate with your Bioloid kit, a Zig2Serial will let you send and receive data (using Task script at the robot end), or to emulate a Robotis remote controller from your computer:

http://robosavvy.com/store/product_info ... cts_id/224

You just need to remove the Zig-100 from your remote controller and pop it into the Zig2Serial.

--Gary

[retro_boy]

Would it be possible to use a mobile phone to send the signal or would that require different hardware?

[garycmartin]

Would it be possible to use a mobile phone to send the signal or would that require different hardware?

OK, requirements starting to get quite tricksy here... No, unless you phone is capable of running a standard operating system like Linux, and it has USB, and can install/build the required USB2Dynamixel device drivers. A more likely approach would be to have your phone talk to your computer, and then your computer communicate with the robot as described in my previous reply. I'm sure I've seen a youtube video, or two, where folks have taken that approach (e.g. written a cgi script and web page on their computer to allow any web capable device drive the bot remotely, another alternative is to use a vnc app on the phone to screen share to your computer and drive some gui buttons).

--Gary

[retro_boy]

Thanks Gary the web based cgi script solution sounds promising. My next question would be, have you seen any open source projects that have achieved this?

[garycmartin]

Thanks Gary the web based cgi script solution sounds promising. My next question would be, have you seen any open source projects that have achieved this?

Have a look at:

http://support.robotis.com/en/software/zigbee_sdk.htm

This is the sdk for code talking to a zigbee setup, I'm not aware of any particular OpenSource projects (it would be so specific to what you are trying to do), but have a google and see if you get lucky.

--Gary