Comments on: Inexpensive powerful router based robot

By: A.

A. — Wed, 08 Oct 2008 04:44:17 +0000

Nice robot… Now you can build some case for him ;-)

By: gm

gm — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:39:11 +0000

Use the Asus WL-500G instead:

a) It runs the same OpenWRT Linux
b) It has a parallel port on the back for easy motor control
c) It has a USB socket on the back, and can run a webcam
d) It has mini-PCI for the wireless card so you can swap something better in
and
e) It costs about the same.

By: andrew

andrew — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 22:04:59 +0000

the star wars soundtrack needs to go…

By: rasz

rasz — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 21:48:11 +0000

wireless camera? they also work at 2.4GHz, baaad idea

bettr mod Asus router with USB build in and add USB camera

By: Mick

Mick — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:23:45 +0000

his sites been hack a dayed!! its now down

By: jimtobias

jimtobias — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:16:13 +0000

i’m waiting for a robot that’s controlled by one kind of router, and powered by the other kind.

By: dok

dok — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:14:53 +0000

Google cache sorta caught it.

http://64.233.183.104/search?q=cache:YF_a2dhg0ysJ:andrey.mikhalchuk.com/2008/02/23/how-to-build-an-inexpensive-yet-powerful-robot-how-to-turn-your-router-into-a-routerbot.html+http://andrey.mikhalchuk.com/2008/02/23/how-to-build-an-inexpensive-yet-powerful-robot-how-to-turn-your-router-into-a-routerbot.html&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

By: Coderer

Coderer — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 19:12:36 +0000

Put a rubber band around the CDs, boom — problem solved. Instant tires, cost 2c each.

By: mike

mike — Tue, 07 Oct 2008 18:41:03 +0000

His site appears to be loading slow, so if anybody’s got a mirror that would be cool.

Just looking at the pic above, I wonder what kind of traction the bot gets on tile floor. It looks like it has grooves cut that would grip carpet good with the cd wheels, but it seems like it still might have a hard time on hard floor.