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Posted by ian dobson on March 26, 2007, 1:56 pm
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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> Jon Hylands wrote:
>> On Sun, 25 Mar 2007 00:24:14 -0400, Brian Adkins
>>> 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@huv.com http://www.huv.com/jon
->>
->> Project: Micro Raptor (Small Biped Velociraptor Robot)
->> http://www.huv.com/blog
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> using Lisp or Scheme (i.e. a mobile, autonomous bot). The options I'm
> aware of currently are:
>
> 1) XS Lisp for Lego MindStorms
> http://www.yuasa.kuis.kyoto-u.ac.jp/~yuasa/xs/index.html
>
> 2) Building a PC based robot so I can use whatever the heck I want to
> program with. For example, I could use cffi to interface with a C
> library for sensors, servo controllers, etc.
>
> Does anyone have experience with option 1 - using XS Lisp on Lego
> MindStorms?
>
> 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.
>
> Are there other robot kits available that would provide the ability to
> run Lisp or Scheme on the robot?
>
> Thanks,
> Brian