16-04-2013, 10:02
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Alumni turned Mentor
AKA: Branden Gunn
 FRC #4761 Team Role: Mentor
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Join Date: Jan 2007
Rookie Year: 1996
Location: Reading, MA
Posts: 844
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Re: Raspberry pi with talon
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Originally Posted by asteb27
I would suggest an arduino for this sort of thing. The raspberry pi really shouldn't be used for this. It has a full stack for a reason, it is meant as a higher level device than an arduino or other micro controller. That being said, there is no reason why you can't control a PWM with a pi, it just is a waste of the potential.
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If the pi is also doing vision processing....
Using a pi for just a single Servo/PWM output may be overkill, but I doubt it is the entire application.
The pi can be a full cRIO replacement for a practice or smaller robot for teaching, etc.
Also, a pi and an Arduino are nearly the same price.
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