I am currently building a remotely operated underwater robot that I plan on using to map out the bottom my city's lake. So far I have developed a motor controlling circuit for propulsion, built the frame, and all of the electronics I have ordered have arrived. The problem that I am having is how to send the data from a USB joystick plugged to my laptop to the ArduinoMEGA that will be underwater, with the ethernet shield and an ethernet cord running up to a router that I have inside of a buoy.
I worded my problem really strangely so here is a better explanation.
How do I get joystick data -----> laptop ------> Wireless router -----> Ethernet shield -----> ArduinoMEGA to control the robot?
inboxjason:
What about using Xbees or RF Links to get the data to the buoy?
I'd suggest the same thing. Then it would just be a matter of passing serial data between the control to the Arduino.
If you go with your WiFi links you're going to have to write a serial to TCP translator to run on your laptop and then the reverse within your bot. Not a huge problem but just that much more complex.
inboxjason:
What about using Xbees or RF Links to get the data to the buoy?
I'd suggest the same thing. Then it would just be a matter of passing serial data between the control to the Arduino.
If you go with your WiFi links you're going to have to write a serial to TCP translator to run on your laptop and then the reverse within your bot. Not a huge problem but just that much more complex.
See, I had thought about that. How would I be able to get data from the xbee that would be on the buoy to the robot?
If you do a google search (much better than the board search function) of this board and the old board for ROV, you should find much discussion on this type of subject and links to sites where people have built such gizmos.