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Skills Canada Robotics Competition
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Decide on Method of Communication Between Controller and RPi #3

Open z3t0 opened 8 years ago

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

We need to decide what method of communication we want to use between the Robot and the controller (s).

Robotics Guidelines (the paper given to us by Skills Canada (sent in an email to everyone)

I will respond with ideas and such on a follow up post.

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

Keep in mind that as per #4 we are likely to be using a Raspberry Pi to interface with the Controller (s). SO try to think of methods compatible with this board. Feel free to read below for recommendations

Source(s):

http://postscapes.com/raspberry-pi-wireless-options

Summary:

Our options are:

Thanks!

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

4 Has his decided as WiFi since the kit there already provides WiFi components.

Bluetooth and WiFi would be very similar either way, and any need to change would cost no more than about $5 - $10 but:

Pros of Wifi:

Cons of Wifi:

Thanks!

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

Update:

Wifi communication means hosting a server on the Raspberry Pi and then using a laptop/phone/tablet to connect to it and use the website as an interface to control GPIO on the Raspberry Pi

Once I get more specific information I will post it here.

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

Sources:

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

This looks like the solution:

http://webiopi.trouch.com

z3t0 commented 8 years ago

I have most of this figured out. Really all we need now is a raspberry pi and some very clever programming....