I have an oscope that has an ethernet port on it for communication. I want to be able to have it be wireless. Unfortunately, they dont make an adapter for it and you cant just plug in a wired-wireless adapter(cause they need drivers usually).
How simple would it be to make a wireless bridge for this? Could I use two Bluetooth or Xbee modules and just connect them to the right pair of the network cable? Would I need a processor like an arduino to control it or any level shifting circuits?
There are 802.11 wireless bridges available as commerical products. They’d just plug into the ethernet port and the scope wouldn’t know any different.
It wouldn’t be simple to make a wireless bridge. Since Zigbee and Bluetooth don’t have even remotely the necessary bandwidth, you’re going to have to catch packets on both ends, and decide how to drop them in order to fit what you can through the link. Oh, and ethernet packets are rather larger than zigbee packets, so you’d have to split them up.
I think if you got one of those Linksys routers that can run Linux, you could slap DD-WRT on it and configure it to do bridging, and you’d be all done for $50 and a couple of hours of work. See: http://www.dd-wrt.com/wiki/index.php/Wireless_Bridge
(Oops, you might need two of them. So $100. But an arduino at each end would’ve set you back $60+ at least.)
I have an oscope that has an ethernet port on it for communication. I want to be able to have it be wireless. Unfortunately, they dont make an adapter for it and you cant just plug in a wired-wireless adapter(cause they need drivers usually).
How simple would it be to make a wireless bridge for this? Could I use two Bluetooth or Xbee modules and just connect them to the right pair of the network cable? Would I need a processor like an arduino to control it or any level shifting circuits?
Thanks in advance.
as said above, just buy an ethernet bridge, or use DD-WRT firmware for one of the compatible wireless routers such as the venerable Linksys WRT-54GL (note the "L")