A group of students from Northeastern University scratch built this WiFi extending robot, called CommBot, almost entirely from billet aluminum. The bot is controlled via WiFi, comes with a custom tablet UI, runs Linux, and deploys WiFi repeater nodes consisting of off-the-shelf hardware running dd-wrt firmware packed into a water tight Pelican case. [via HN]
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