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Re: Wireless Programming
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Originally Posted by Alan Anderson View Post
It seems like it should work, but I've never heard of anyone getting it to work reliably. The "packetizing" of the serial data as it travels across the Bluetooth layer apparently interferes severely with the IFI Loader protocol. If programming works at all, it works extremely slowly.

Cross The Road Electronics planned to produce a wireless programming solution called the Chicken Wire last year. I think the prototype works fine, but I haven't seen it made available for purchase.
Any additional packet-management seriously messes with IFI Loader. Just using a USB to serial cord caused the code to download extremely slowly and even time out occasionally.

An alternative would be wireless serial, but from what we've seen they run at about $300 a piece for what you would need to program a robot with.
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