[Lab] Fwd: wireless Ethernet

[Tom Burns]

Simplify, go with a simpler radio than wireless ethernet.  You may need a
micro or full computer on the otherside before it can be on ethernet but
it'll last longer than a router's worth of processing on batteries.

sparkfun.com sells drop-in wireless radios for serial connections.

Tom

On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:12 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc <
jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com> wrote:

> that would be perfect but not at 70$
> I would try a big 12V batter for UPS and such but I can't figure out
> how to mount it to my bot.
> the 15 $11.1v batteries looks neat but I don't know if its enough
> voltage my 8 1.5V batteries didn't seem to provide enough voltage
> thanks for your suggestions.
>
> Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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> "Do you pine for the nice days of Minix-1.1, when men were men and
> wrote their own device drivers?" Linus Torvalds
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> On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 1:58 PM, Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org> wrote:
> > Forgot to Reply All.
> > A.
> >
> > Begin forwarded message:
> >
> > From: Andrew Plumb <andrew at plumb.org>
> > Date: March 2, 2011 1:57:40 PM EST
> > To: Jean-Marc LeBlanc <jeanmarc.leblanc at gmail.com>
> > Subject: Re: [Lab] wireless Ethernet
> >
> > You probably want to use something like a wireless travel adapter/bridge,
> > kind of like this DWL-G730AP by D-Link:
> > http://www.dlink.com/products/?pid=346
> >
> > Andrew.
> >
> > On 2011-03-02, at 1:46 PM, Jean-Marc LeBlanc wrote:
> >
> > Hi,
> >
> > I Have a robot that connect to the network with Ethernet.  The problem
> >
> > is that Ethernet requires a wire.  Does any one have any ideas how I
> >
> > can make it wireless?  I thought of mounting a router on top but i
> >
> > need 12V at 500mA.  I tired using 8 AA batteries but that is not
> >
> > working.  Some people suggested a wifi usb key but that would require
> >
> > open source drivers and allot of porting.  any thoughts?
> >
> > Jean-Marc Le Blanc
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