Wireless router on robot

[daltore]

This is not a question about legality in competition, or for use in competition, or having anything to do with competing in FIRST, my question is if there is a *relatively* simple way of converting the FRC control setup to work with a router on the robot, and the driver station as just a laptop.

We will be getting a couple of control systems this year or next year (whenever the funding finally gets approved from last year), but we first have to figure out how to control the darn things. Instead of buying a $150 router and a $90 bridge for each robot, I'm wondering if there is a way to convert the control system to use a $30 router (the new Frys.com Wireless-N router, I got one today, and I believe it works quite well enough for this purpose) on the robot, and just connect the driver station computer as a client.

Any thoughts on this or alternatives?