Let's Make Robots!

routerbot

Components ordered

Finally ordered the basic components for the auto-aiming wireless repeater bot, everything other than the servos and wheels basically :) Bought from Baltic Networks who had great prices and pre-sales support.

Basic platform is the Ubuiquiti RouterStation @ $63 (going to be running OpenWRT).  Much more powerful than a usual robotics board (and much larger) but I'm definitely hoping that the GPIO pins are enough for the servo control.

command an actuator through wifi
Using a
This describes how to use the GPIO on a wireless router as binary outputs and how to control your electronics from the linux commandline. Software I started out … Read more
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sweet! (home area network)

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Check out today's score!

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A colleague gave me this linksys WRT54. The dreamed version with the lotta-RAM and lotta-flash. For free.

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