Re: Robot programming in Lisp/Scheme

Hi,

I don't know directly of any small robots that support WiFi directly but
most have a serial port so you could use an X-Port (or is it Wi-Port) for
communication.

Regards
Ian Dobson

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"Brian Adkins" <lojicdotcomNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
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Jon Hylands wrote:
On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:24:14 -0400, Brian Adkins
<lojicdotcomNOSPAM@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

Option 2 would give me more flexibility with respect to development
environments, but I think it will be more expensive and the need to have
->>> heavier batteries to supply the power a mini-PC would require would add
->>> weight and thus size, so I expect I'd be limited to a wheel based bot
->>> vs. leg based.
->>
->> One option you can consider is having a small robot that has a wifi
->> interface, so the programming can stay on your PC, and the robot can
just
->> have a fairly simple wifi module and a microcontroller to interface to
->> the
->> sensors and actuators.
->
-> Thanks. Do you know of any robot kits that include wifi capability?
->
->>
->> Later,
->> Jon
->>
->> --------------------------------------------------------------
->> Jon Hylands Jon@xxxxxxx http://www.huv.com/jon
->>
->> Project: Micro Raptor (Small Biped Velociraptor Robot)
->> http://www.huv.com/blog



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