wifi

Hello !
What is the most inexpensive, yet stable robust and relatively fast micro-controller + wireless setup?

I have been asking this question to myself for way too long... Now, I'm curious of your experiences in the different flavors available..

In my specific situation talking back and forth to a computer or laptop would be the primary objective.

I just learned about a thingy called zipit. Apparently it can run a linux distro and then the world is your oyster. Click the pic.

Just mentioning it here so I will ind it again when searching my fav search engine.

im looking to control my picaxe robot wirelessly by either my computer or remote control..
what is the cheapest method and how would i go about doing it?
thanks muchly

I'm making a WiFinder robot and I am having some trouble with my arduino code. 

I want to be able to set the robot to a wifi network and have it follow the strongest wifi signal. I plan to have edge detection for stairs and distance from wall sensing. I am having trouble finding the code to be able to get the WiFly to send its signal strength to the arduino, and then converting it to an integer. I know that the the wifly will respond to the command "show rssi" with the signal strength. please help

my code follows:

/*SETUP

So I was thinking, What if robots didn't do the "thinking" right there but sent it to a pc set to run the logic of the robot and then sent it back to the robot via wifi? I think it would be and faster and more powerfull then doing it on a tiny microcontroller.

Any ideas?

Hi guys,

I'm thinking of using WiFi as a mode of communication with my robot from my laptop.

So far, I'm only able to find three modules by Roving Network on SparkFun:

 http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/categories.php?c=112

what are the specs to lookout for in selecting the right module?

Hi. I am making a robot that runs like a car but has a camera on it and runs over wifi. Sort of an city explorer bot. Does anyone have any suggestions on the parts I need (based on my framework), or any other parts? Or any other recommendations whatsoever? any help isgreatly apprieciated.

Robot framework  http://letsmakerobots.com/node/8961

Thankyou in advance,

Thomas 

I don't know much about networks and communications but most laptops and routers these days are wireless. Can we use this to interface with our bots?

A quick google on WiFi protocol told me that it is technically referred to as the 802.11 protocol.

The Xbee transceivers can also form a wireless network using the 802.15.4 protocol.

I'm new to robotics but have dabbled in Microcontrollers the last few years and develop software for a living. One thing I've been dreaming of doing for awhile is builting a blimp robot that is controlled over wifi, but I can't seem to find information on is how to connect microcontrollers to some sort of wifi interface. I'm hoping there's some sort of module somewhere that I can interface with.

Here's the plan: