Routerbots – In the rough but perhaps not too far down the road?

Who knows we could see something like this roaming the halls of a hospital, when you think about it, there could be some serious potential for something like this, router robotics in the IT Department. Set up a conference quickly with a robotic wireless network. The video is very entertaining as well. Have a great weekend and posting will be light for the next couple days. BD

Routerbots seem to be a bit of a growing trend in hobby robotics. These are bots built using the WRT54G routers which have open source firmware. The bot above was built by Andrey Mikhalchuk. He created a custom version of OpenWRT Linux and modified the Linksys router hardware so it could control the two hacked (for continuous rotation) servo motors. I love the lo-tek approach of using the router as the robot body and the CDs for wheels.