Thread: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
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Cool Re: Running the Kinect on the Robot.
It's simple. Just buy a small ARM computer. They're cheap. I use the Raspberry Pi. Tons of developer resources. It's just $35. Edit a text file to overclock the CPU, GPU or RAM. Get the CodeBlocks IDE and the FreeNect Library.

Just open up terminal and type in:
sudo apt-get install codeblocks freenect openssh-server

type in the 'openssh-server' so that you can shut it down with the command:

shutdown -h now

The Raspberry Pi should run on a 'wide' range of voltages. To power the kinect, get a step-up converter/transformer to get 24 volts. Then, use a switching or LDO Linear voltage regulator. Just not that the Kinect requires 1A of current. Someone posted that it requires 12 Watts and 12 volts. Ohms law will solve this for you. That is all I know about this setup. I might use this, but because of my PHP knowledge, I am going to create a web Point-and-Click-to-Attack protocol service so that we can do things more accurately than any other team even if they have the best drivers!
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