[Lab] Fwd: wireless Ethernet

[Jean-Marc LeBlanc]

they WTR52G seems to run at 6V and can run off 4 AA
http://www.ck3k.org/gal/wrt/


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




On Wed, Mar 2, 2011 at 2:14 PM, Tom Burns <tom.i.burns at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> 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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>> > "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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