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Re: Running the Kinect on the Robot.

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
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?
But the PS3 has 200W power consumption or something like that.

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Originally Posted by davidthefat View Post
As far as I know, most of the depth perception is done on the Kinect itself. It is just transferring the data and images to the PC or 360. Now, you have to realize, you would have to find a way to power the laptop. Batteries are not allowed.
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Originally Posted by FRC 2012 Robot Manual
[R36] The only legal source of electrical energy for the Robot during the competition is one MK ES17-12
12VDC non-spillable lead acid battery, or one EnerSys NP 18-12 battery, as provided in the 2012 KOP. This is the only battery allowed on the Robot.

Batteries integral to and part of a COTS computing device are also permitted (i.e. laptop batteries), provided they’re only used to power the COTS computing device.

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