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Re: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
The best price per performance has to be a PS3. 6 SPEs (SIMD processors) and 1 dual threaded PPE (RISC, PowerPC Core) at 3.2 GHz open to your use. Can be picked up at around $250, no where near the $400 limit. Also, a laptop that price will have performance significantly lower. PS3 still running linux will be open to the Video4Linux drivers that support a variety of webcams and the Kinect drivers were originally written for linux. If you are even up for it, you can hook up 2-3 PS3s to have a mini distributed memory cluster on your very own robot!
But again, good luck even trying to interface one. There also is a 1 minute boot up time for the PS3 into Linux.
But you probably can get better performance with an FPGA, but who's willing to do that?
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