How to best control a squad of Particle-driven robotic cars?

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I want to design robotic cars that have a persistent connection to a PC on the same wireless network. The PC will feed the cars with control data (speed, turning, horn, etc.) in real-time, acting as the controller. This data will be sent as a String of consistent length (something less than 32 bytes) as often as possible.

I assume this is not a job for Cloud functions. How would the Photon or newer Particle boards best accomplish this?

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If you are dealing with local communication you may have shortest response time using UDP or TCP

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Thanks @ScruffR. I’ve never used those protocols directly but this is the perfect opportunity to learn. Looks like I could get away with UDP quite well.

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