[NotInControl]

I am having one of my buddies ship me their TK1 dev board so I can test the Jetson TK1 with the Alpha/Beta hardware I have.

We used a beagleBone running openCV this year for vision in auto (it worked very well). With a 320x240 image we were getting 20fps with about 100ms lag behind real-time (not very noticeable, and very well within the requirements of hot goal detection).

Hopefully, I can get around to this, but I am going to recompile openCV with CUDA support, and see how much more we can do with the extra compute power.

I also wanted to take the same binary I had on the beagleBone, and run it directly on the RoboRio for comparative purposes, but haven't gotten around to that as of yet. But that is coming as well.

I am going to see how well this 12V board integrates with the RoboRio and new PDP. I may also end up putting it on a buck-boost supply so that when the robot dips to voltage, this guy doesn't loose its power. But I will only do that if other tests prove it is necessary. (my hunch right now is some boost supply will be necessary knowing how low our robots dip in Voltage).

The drivetrain I am running for these test is a 8 wheel (Traction Colson), 4-cim, single speed, so it should be possible to get the battery to dip to 8V instantaneously during normal driving.

I will report back what ever I can, as soon as I can. I just wanted to make the community aware that someone with Beta hardware is testing this out.

I am not sure I will buy one of these yet, it also looks like NVIDIA plans to release an upgrade to the TK1 early 2015 (maybe the new board can support 2015 build season?!).

-Kevin