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Re: Wireless Serial Link - Legal Yes/No?

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Originally Posted by russell
There is no need to outsource processing to laptop. Put a computer on your robot and even with an old computer (I am looking at using a 386) it would actually be just as fast because it is the serial link that limits the speed.
Hmm that is actually a pretty neat Idea. I didn't think about that yet. But it seems like it would require a good amount of work and may has some disadvantages. Since what OS are you running on the Laptop? An Old Windows or some Linux? If yes how are you doing Serial Communication with that? How do you prevent the Hardrive from beeing fried when beeing hit a lot by other robots. But besides that the only problem that I see is the weight that a Laptop has ^^ ...

Do you have solutions to the problems I see?

Bye

Felix