WL-520gU Project - Floating Camera

[Madox]

Hi

Just a quick hi and say thanks to MightyOhm for pointing me to the Asus WL-520gU (I was going to use a Chumby before).

I'm doing a rush job remote control 'boat' thing with the WL-520gU...some photos of the bits and pieces here :-
http://www.madox.net/blog/2009/05/24/mf ... ra-part-1/

The IP Camera and USB Relay Board all work great with the router, and the remote control GUI is coming along

Test run in the bath tub soon!

[mightyohm]

Cool project! Probably the first time an WL-520gU has gone to sea.

Looking forward to seeing the video - those bilge pumps look seriously overpowered for pushing around that little router. It should be exciting!

[Madox]

MFC - It floats, it moves, its held together by duct tape!

Video of a test run in the bathtub...

http://www.madox.net/blog/2009/06/05/mfc-madox-floating-camera-part-2/

[mightyohm]

I love it! How are you controlling the router's movement? I see some sort of web interface on your laptop, are you running a web server on the router or sending commands via some other means?

Nice work!

[Madox]

Router runs busybox httpd serving 3 main files for the client, mfc.html, mfc.css, mfc.js.

Simple Web GUI buttons, zoomed in like hell on the laptop, intended for a WinMo/Android/iPhone.

Each button press sends a xmlhttp request to a shell script, which does some very basic logic and simply runs a demo program from the libftdi distribution to write to the relay board (which is based on a FTDI FT245 chip).

Asus runs a simple OpenWRT build, with LuCi and libusb + libftdi programs.

I'm lazy Minimal effort, works

(And boy am I not disappointed by the versatility of duct tape/gaffa tape...)

[Madox]

Updated the post with some extra photos and youtube videos (erm... its still uploading).

Bathtub test 2 is a success, camera live streaming & recording works well...Ready to try it out on the lake tomorrow!

[Madox]

http://www.madox.net/blog/2009/06/06/au ... june-2009/

It "kind of" worked

[mightyohm]

It looks like it worked pretty well to me.. I love the videos! Great work on this project.