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Originally Posted by dtengineering
Then I was going to ask a question similar to yours, but a bit different... Does anyone have any suggestions on how to interface the laptop on the robot to the rest of the internet, so that I can control the data feed down the serial port TO the robot using any computer on the planet?
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Well, I knew exactly how I was going to control the robot remotely from the start. I'm a hardcore Linux user, so I use secure shell (SSH) regularly. SSH is basically like secure telnet, for those who don't know. With SSH I can remote into my laptop from any computer in my house. With some port forwarding magic on my router (or tunneling; there's a million ways it can be done), I can SSH into my laptop from anywhere in the world. Now, if I use a shell based terminal emulator app like minicom or kermit, I can control the bot with SSH and effectively from anywhere around the world.
There's a port of Open SSH server to Windows, but I don't know if there are any CLI based terminal emulators for Windows. It might be a pain to set up so it might be worth dual booting Linux, I don't know...
Oh, and btw, after an all nighter of coding I've gotten the basic command interface working. It doesn't do anything right now... I still need to actually parse the commands. I'm a total parsing noob (in perl, I often just split() the strings and simply assume which pieces are which), so this should be a good learning experience for me.
Anyway, I guess we're in this thing together. Good luck!
