# Wireless comport

**URL:** <https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wireless-comport/6748>\
**Category:** Wireless & IoT\
**Created:** [March 14, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wireless-comport/6748 "2008-03-14T03:16:48Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 2\
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**Author:** ![wasssup1990](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/bbce88/32.png) [@wasssup1990](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/wasssup1990)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 3:16am UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wireless-comport/6748/1 "2008-03-14T03:16:48Z")

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Hi, I am going to upgrade my robot with wireless communications and use one of these transcievers on my robot and one connected to my computer. It’s basically just a serial port datalink between my computer and my robot without the wires.

[http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/produc … cts\_id=705](http://www.sparkfun.com/commerce/product_info.php?products_id=705)

The serial port baud will be at 115200 b/s and everything is telling me that I can do this with these transcievers and an appropriate MCU. I just need to make sure this can be done before I buy the units.

If anyone can confirm that these units can be used in this way I would really appriciate it.

Thanks, and have a nice day! 😃

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**Author:** ![stevech](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ba8739/32.png) [@stevech](https://community.sparkfun.com/u/stevech)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2008, 7:42pm UTC](https://community.sparkfun.com/t/wireless-comport/6748/2 "2008-03-14T19:42:30Z")

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I don’t know about those, but if you want a zero software development approach (no protocol writing, no bit-stuffing, no error correction, etc.) then consider using wireless serial port extender (pair). As cheap modules rather than a more costly in-a-box product, you could use Digi/Maxstream XBee modules. They have wireless serial port extender software built-in. So to your PC and embedded device, the link is a serial port; the wireless is transparent.

Take a look at t

[viewtopic.php?t=9909](http://forum.sparkfun.com/viewtopic.php?t=9909)

This scheme is popular among the robot gang.

But if you start with a bare RF-only module, you’ll learn a lot after you get your own protocol and wireless serial port extender equivalent implemented.