[selcuka]

> For control, I used the PCB of a travel wifi router. I soldered three small DC motors to its LED outputs. The embedded software consisted of something like:

> nc -l -u -p 10000 | bash

That's a neat idea. Did you have to flash it with a custom firmware or do they typically come with netcat etc installed?

[sgtnoodle]

The router had openWRT support. Once I flashed that on, it had minimal versions of all the usual cli tools through BusyBox.