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Originally Posted by faust1706
Last year, we had a custom built computer designed to run from the battery, and that communicates with the cRIO via Ethernet. This year I was lucky enough to acqurie an O Droid X board, they are made in south korea, and it weighs 6 ounces. We cut off the servo motor on the kinect to reduce weight, our case for it is 3d printed (so plastic), and is very lightweight. Overall, all vision equipment weighs a total of maybe 3 pounds give or take a few ounces-we did at one point weigh it separate, but i forgot what it was XD. Our Droid X runs ubuntu 12.10, last year it also ran ubuntu but a different version. I get the board to talk with the kinect by using the libfreenect software ( http://openkinect.org/wiki/Main_Page). Then from there I use it as a standard camera and use IR light. |
This is exactly what 1444 does as well. So far it is the best method we have found. Much better than offloading all the processing to the drivers' station and dealing with FIRST's bandwidth "issues".