I want to know If what I am suggesting is ludicrous

[Robototes2412]

I was approached by a teammate telling me that we need another control board/ robot thing to play with. I came up with the idea of using a DS and arduino (w/ wifi card).

The DS and Arduino would both be connected to the wifi access points (10.24.12.10 for the arduino (dec equiv of hex a) 10.24.12.14 for the ds (dec equiv of hex d)) and the Ds would run a RFD (real freakin' dumb) program that would capture button inputs then pass them on to the arduino.

My question is this: is such an idea crazy?

[RoboMaster]

Not too bad, I guess. People do this all the time in the hobby/maker world. The thing is you need to have the materials and know-how to do it. Are you asking is it possible, or are you knowledgeable enough about how it could be done but are asking if it's practical/easy enough?

Search around makezine.com for projects with Arduinos and wifi cards. The most/only one used is the Xbee wireless card, often with the helpful adapter to facilitate communication. You could also use an ethernet shield/addon, but that would make it wired. Unless you used the FRC robot radio...

http://www.ladyada.net/make/xbee/
(the ladyada site is extremely good, look at their tutorials and shop, too)

[Robototes2412]

Does anyone on this forum have ds homebrew experience?

[demosthenes2k8]

I have slight experience, but not much with dswifi, which you'd need to send the signals.

[kamocat]

No, this is a cool idea.
I thought of something like this back in the 2009 season. Ideally I wanted to run the whole driver station on the DS, because then we wouldn't need that silly Kwikbyte driver station.

However, I didn't have the experience with making homebrew, and now, well, I use LabVIEW.

I suppose you could try running it off DsLinux, if that would make it easier.

Anyways, wikipedia has good info and links on this:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nintend...ew#Programming

[Robototes2412]

i would love to, but the site is down, you have a dsLinux rom?

[kamocat]

Here's my copy of DS linux.
It's 60MB, so I've uploaded it on personal hosting.

http://content.screencast.com/users/...nloadOnly=true

EDIT:
Isn't it funny that this is larger than DSL Linux?

[Robototes2412]

thanks