Wireless Arduino

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Hey I'm new to the Arduino and was wondering what is the easiest and cost efficient way to control an Arduino Delcima wirelessly?
I was thinking of using this for the hovercraft i'm building with my friends.

Any better solutions that are relatively impecunious in cost?
Maybe a bluetooth module and a wiimote?

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http://www.arduino.cc/cgi-bin/yabb2/YaBB.pl?num=1172459283

good luck with ur project :slight_smile:

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That seems like a great solution.
Any others?

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well, i think it's a good solution, and i have all of the parts, excpet for a broken expansion port thing, so i cant connect it to the arduino... but that sounds like a very low cost solution, probably the most low cost....

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You can get dirt cheap serial transmitter/reciever pairs.
About $14 for a set. $28 if you want bidirectional communication.

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where?

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Sparkfun: RF Link 2400bps Receiver - 315MHz - WRL-08948 - SparkFun Electronics

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..... i asked about those like 3 weeks ago, but i thought we ended the thread by noting that these would only work with some kind of confusing encoder...

am i wrong? can i just plug one of them into my arduino, and one to my comp?

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..... i asked about those like 3 weeks ago, but i thought we ended the thread by noting that these would only work with some kind of confusing encoder...

am i wrong? can i just plug one of them into my arduino, and one to my comp?

You can, but the data transmission will not be reliable. That's why they were suggesting using Manchester encoding - it's not hardware, it's a software technique.

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so can this currently be done accurately and successfully?

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so can this currently be done accurately and successfully?

Well I don't think there is a simple library that you can slip into your code, but I'm guessing that's what they are working on. Probably best discussed in that thread.

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so can this currently be done accurately and successfully?

For certain values of accurate yes. Its plenty good for most purposes - just dont use it for your pacemaker.

I'll make a library for it if no one else has when mine come in the mail.

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Those little $14 wireless pairs are probably not the best solution for a hovercraft. I've been working with mine for the last two weeks (off and on) and they are difficult to deal with.

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Has anybody ever tried to upload code to arduino wireless using those RF LINK MODULES? Any help would be much appreciated!

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I found this site Hobby Robotics » Cheap Arduino Wireless Communications , but it's still not clear to me if it's possible or not!

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You can use a cheap openwrt capable router. This way you can control your Arduino from anywhere over the internet. Here is an article that helped me to connect Arduino to a wireless router:

You don't have to use the same router from that article, get a cheap router from craigslist or ebay that is supported by openwrt and that has a serial port.

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Or you could just buy an Arduino with WiFi already embedded, here:-

http://www.asynclabs.com/

WiFi shields are about 50 bucks, the YellowJacket is about 55, and that has an Arduino 328 with an embedded WiFi module.

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thanks a lot for the reply, but actually i'm trying to find a way to transmit the signals wireless from arduino to the shift register hc595: http://www.arduino.cc/en/Tutorial/ShiftOut . To be more precise, i'm trying to send the signals LATCH, DATA and CLOCK, wireless from arduino to the shift register.