Wireless Deployment / Ipconfig

[diviney]

Andy is not violating the principal of unique team IP addressing. His resulting IP's are constrained to 10.xx.yy.10-254 which is still completely unique to his team.

You do have a legitimate point from an RF interference standpoint, and wireless operation in the pits at competitions will likely be prohibited for that reason.

At your home base however, this is highly valuable. It allows multiple development stations to "share" the robot without plugging / unplugging. We have always done this, but we are "wired" to a small local network. We can share the robot through a tether, or through it's wireless link. A simple consumer router (in combination with a hub/switch if more ports are needed) can facilitate this. You could use this at a competition (tethered to the robot to avoid RFI), but then agtain, the pits are so crowded that you may not want a team of programmers huddled around hacking at the software!

-Tom