Chapter 7. Accessing Your Biped Remotely

Now that your biped is up and running, you'll want to able to send it on its way into the world, but still be able to monitor and control it remotely. This will help you in development as well as deployment and will open up all sorts of new scenarios and applications.

In this chapter, you will learn:

  • How to add a wireless LAN dongle to your biped robot and set it up as a wireless access point
  • How to control your biped robot using this access and a joystick
  • How to use the wireless LAN connection to get First Person Video (FPV) back so that you can see what your biped robot is seeing

Adding a wireless dongle and creating an access point

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