Hi,
I have some basic questions. I've been using Linux for about 5 years
now simply because it works great. Now i've signed on as a volunteer
to help build the next Solar Car for the University of Toronto. I'm
in the telemtry system and am looking for the data communications
hardware.
I'd like to do it in linux but i don't know the first thing about what
kind of hardware is available for linux, or what i really need here.
Basically there needs to be two systems (obviously), one in the solar
car, and one in a chase vehicle. I really only need to send about 128
bits every few minutes from the solar car to the chase vehicle. The
car has a cool little microcontroller in it which will be processing
the internal sensor data. Somehow i've got to shove that data out
into the air for the chase vehicle to grab. The chase vehicle should
be running linux (if the gods smile upon me) and will grab the data
and muck with it.
Basically i'm completely in the dark about what to do with the
hardware side of things. What is there available that i can use?
There won't be a person with a Ham license so it's got to be able to
run on non-ham bands.
I know this is pretty vague, and loosely defined. Sorry, but that's
where i am right now. Any thoughts anyone has would be great.
Cheers,
Derek
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