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GENRIP for Ultra Low Cost Wireless Deployments

Posted by michael on from the masochists-wanted dept.

Gregory Perry writes "A South Florida company just released GENRIP, an open source (as in GPL) project for Linux that turns low cost serial line devices (such as 900 Mhz radios) into IP addressable nodes; right now the technology is being used by various robotics groups to replace existing wired tethers on robots with wireless radio links, but the important thing to mention is the ability to use cheap radios to create wireless lan segments without the power and cost requirements associated with 802.11 WLANS."

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  1. anyone got a... by Havoc'ing · · Score: 4, Funny

    pringles can?

  2. Guess I better... by dethl · · Score: 1, Funny

    not use my 900mhz cordless phone while using this.....

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    "Some fight for law. Some fight for justice. What will you fight for? One day, you will see."
  3. Better not try anything to serious with it by greechneb · · Score: 4, Funny

    I can imagine having some critical item hooked up (for example an O2 tank for grandma) to a computer for monitoring of regulation, and teenager gets on cordless phone to dial her friend, and the 02 tank goes crazy with full force, blowing up grandma like a cartoon balloon. - Not a good thing

  4. "Cost requirements" of 802.11 WLANS? by Wakko+Warner · · Score: 3, Funny

    Look, if you guys can't afford a few cans of Pringles, I'll chip in a few bucks...

    - A.P.

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    "Remember when the U.S. had a drug problem, and then we declared a War On Drugs, and now you can't buy drugs anymore?"
  5. First .ogg Post by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    I refuse to purchase this product until it supports the far superior .ogg format.

  6. Re:SOUTH Florida by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 2, Funny

    South Florida is so different from the nothern part of the state... almost a different state in and on itself! :)

  7. Re:not a replacement by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    28.8K huh? good enough for /. (lynx) on some beach in bermuda... after all the pr0n would be right there in meatspace to look at ;-)

  8. Re:Low cost? by cybermace5 · · Score: 3, Funny

    ...embedded web server (which begs the question: why an embedded web server?).

    Why? So it can get Slashdotted, of course!

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  9. Re:Man Hours is a Cost too... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Funny

    But what about the cost of man hours it takes to get this up and running.

    Man hours are -free- when the "man" sports a GNU neck-beard, rendering himself essentially unemployable anyways.