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Re: CRIO-FRCIII

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Originally Posted by virtuald View Post
This sounds pretty cool. It requires having an additional computer on the robot, correct?
Correct, however one of my test platforms is the $65 Odroid-U3. With a PS3 eye cam, memory card and power converter you're looking at half the price of an Axis camera. #3574 uses the more powerful Odroid XU at $170. Under testing the performance edge it has over the U3 is only about 20%, and maybe even not that much. With 2 feeds, 1 of which is being processed by a hot goal detector, we barely break 50% utilization.

The only downsides I see against the Axis cameras are
  1. Multiple components that need to be connected
  2. No wpilib support

To bring it back to the thread at hand, I will be testing ocupus on RobotRIO in the hopes that it can support at least 1 low resolution USB camera without too much impact on other robotly duties.