
MovieMaker

I will be running a windows7 or windows8 netbook for brains. I don't want to pull the netbook off the robot to power it up. Is there a way to tell the netbook from the bios to turn on? Once it is on and has windows, I can take it from there.
I am thinking I could leave it running all the time and just tell it to sleep. But, if I could power it up without opening it up, it would be better. I don't want to go inside because everything is so small and very fragile.
Thanks,
mel
You can wake from sleep via mouse, keyboard, lan, IR... but you can also wake up from standby over LAN by sending a magic packet to it's MAC address if you wanted to save more power.
Some laptops have IR which can be used to power on, some can't. It depends if it's powered while the laptop is off.
Or you could open it up and modify the power button and move it to an accessible location on the robot.
Alan
You will be able to set windows to allow the touch screen to wake it up, as was my first suggestion of keyboard, mouse, ir, lan etc...
However, even with WOL and magic packets, it doesn't always work. You will no doubt need to manually turn the netbook on so it would be wise to have it accessible.