Internet Controlled Robot

[Jayan]

Hello, I am a student currently using flowcode and the e-blocks kit to develop a robot that I can control via the internet. Currently I have the Matrix developer board to run a 16F877a to drive my robot and the intructions are going to be sent wireless via the zigbee routers, but the user has to use the internet to control it. How can I connect my Zigbee co-ordinator to the internet in order to drive my robot? And how con I transmit the webpage instrustions such as "Forward" to drive my robot wirelessly? Please Let me know if you can help, as this is for my final year university project.

Many Thanks

Jayan

[Benj]

Hello Jayan,

You will need to first create a Zigbee network between a PC and your embedded system. You can do this by getting a Zigbee dongle or you can use something like a ECIO to create a bridge between Zigbee and USB. Once you have done this you will need something running on the PC to intercept TCP/IP messages and then translate the messages to commands to send via the Zigbee.

[Jayan]

Thank you for replying and looking into this. I also have the EB023 internet board can I implement this in anyway?

[Benj]

Hello,

Right ok in this case you can probably do away with the PC and instead create an Ethernet to Zigbee bridge. I have suggested ways at passing parameters into the embedded application from here which should allow you to send commands which can be picked up and interpreted by the bridge hardware.

http://www.matrixmultimedia.com/mmforum ... 964#p12964

[Jayan]

Thank you benj, I will look at your examples. Thank you for looking into this matter