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Originally Posted by EHaskins
Why would you have a computer on the robot? The dashboard data is not that complicated. If you had the dashboard data being feed through the wifi serial ports, and a WiFi camera on the robot you wouldn't have a problem. There is no reason to risk your laptop on a robot.
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I guess I should have qualified the comments. If you do NOT have $400 worth of wifi serial adapters, but do have an old laptop, if would be fairly straight-forward to prototype something similar. For the price of one wifi webcam you could get two USB webcams, one for the robot and one for the operator. If you use MSN Messenger and open a videoconference to the robot you get bidirectional video and audio, useful for telling people to get back to class. Plus, if they can see you they might be more willing to cooperate.