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Originally Posted by vickt
Oh nice! We settled with a laptop so we wouldn't have to deal with power supply and threw in a 32 gb ssd, and also having a monitor is nice for debugging. We were looking at compact embedded board, but every company I talked to seemed to be scared to give me a quote in quantity 1.
I thought that the $400 rule was per component, so couldn't one theoretically put an i7 machine on the robot?
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I'm the mentor for 3574 that helped put that together. My understanding of the rules is that you could. However, we kept it safe this year. A top of the line i7 can draw 130 watts of power. That translates into more heat, more battery drain, bigger motherboard, and a larger power supply.
The i3 we went draws just 65w and uses a MicroATX mother board, but at 3.3ghz processes the 640x480 60fps feed from the PS3 eye cam in real time.
Next year, depending on the vision related challenges, I'd like to see what performance boost an NVidia GPU would give, as opencv does have GPU accelerated routines for some functionality.
For those interested, here is the buy list for the vision processor:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16819115077
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813135288
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16835209049
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820161279
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820227510
http://www.mini-box.com/PW-200M-DC-DC-power-supply
http://www.mini-box.com/P4-ATX