Thread: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
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Unread 05-01-2012, 02:13
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Re: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
I remember that there was a whole discussion of this last year... Assuming they will not change the rules regarding the legality of non KOPs motors, you would have to modify the Kinect to take those tilt/pan motors out. I'm telling you Arduino is not enough horsepower for image processing. You need a full on FPGA or ARM (A9 or something) processor on there. It's mathematically not possible; it does not even have enough memory to pass on the image to the cRio.

Also, from the sounds of it, you just want somebody else to do all the hard work for you. Now, I don't know man, if you want it, you figure it out on your own.

Just don't get your hopes up that someone will go out of their own way to get this working. Do not plan on having it at all on the robot. The last thing I want happening is that you design your robot around this thing, which has not been done, and waiting for someone else to deliver it for you. I know how that feels, this happened to us last year. The shipment of the pneumatic actuators came the week before competition and we already shipped it off.

Here are the threads:
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=89101
http://www.chiefdelphi.com/forums/sh...ad.php?t=87803


If you are up for it, go for it. Just GO. That was my issue last year, I never just "did".
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