Newbie Question

Question

 

Hello all:

 

I read the following post (About custom robots and interface to non yet supported platforms)

 

http://forums.microsoft.com/MSDN/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=2077297&SiteID=1

 

I understand that I can use one box (PC or Laptop) as robot brain, in which resides and abstract concept of the robot, then i can interface via Serial Port, USB, Wireless or Bluetooth this box with the physical robot (In this scenario no windows OS is used in robot), because of this i assume i can interface my box with a PDA device like a Palm that supports Wireless or Bluetooth.

I am correct in this asumption?

 

If my assumption is correct, I want to start learning this and my idea is by creating a program in Palm that contains a windows with some label and buttons to simulate motors (Labels change to on or off) and bumpers(buttons to simulate a switch as a sensor).

 

Well, now the big question is what i need to start to build a service for this kind of project, I review the tutorials and i found in Remotely Connected Robots some information but this tutorial is not focused to create a new service. How do i start building this?

 

Thank you in advanced.

Leopoldo

Answer 1

Hello Leopoldo,

 

Writing services for your hardware is disussed here on MSDN:

http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/library/bb483065.aspx

 

Also, if your PDA supports Windows CE, you can actually write MSRS services which run directly on that platform.  If it runs some different OS, then you would write a program native to that platform which communicates with the PC as you described.  In both cases (assuming you have connectivity), you can still do coordination and cpu-intensive processing on your PC.

 

Dave