Thread: Vision on separate board
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Unread 02-10-2013, 12:14
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Re: Vision on separate board
Last year we used a Pandaboard single board computer based on a white paper from another team. The two key issues you need to address no matter what you choose to use are:
1. Power - You will want to build voltage regulators to power the board off of the main power distribution board.
2. Communication - Spend a great deal of time defining how your vision program will communicate with the CRIO and other robot code. KISS principle applies as always. We also had the board streaming the image back to the DS so if you want to do that make sure you can control the bandwidth usage (resolution and Frames Per Second).

There are lots of good and cheap single board computers out there, I would just make sure you picked one which has a solid Linux build with all drivers available.