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Originally Posted by Poseidon5817
Title explains itself, has anyone written a guide for how to set up, program, and use the Jetson boards in FRC? If not, this could be a good resource for teams who want to use a good coprocessor, but are turned away by the complexity of the project.
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It hasn't been done yet that I know of but I am far from an authoritative on the TX1. That being said, we released some white papers over the summer and at the end of last season discussing how we used it successfully.
What I will also tell you is that there are lots of groups working on resources to better use the TX1 and ultimately what you are trying to do should determine what hardware and software you are using.
If your goal is to get an awesome vision system running on an FRC robot then have you looked at GRIP yet? Or the PIXY cam?
If your goal is to put a TX1 on your robot and use the GPU then do you realize that OpenCV programming in C/C++ is required because there is no python support for the GPU at present? This also means you are responsible for memory management between the CPU and GPU (it's not done automagically unfortunately). There are tons of great examples for OpenCV though so don't let that scare you but it's something to be aware of.
Also something to consider is size and power requirements for the TX1. Do you know how large the TX1 carrier board is and are you prepared to sacrifice that much space on the robot to hold it? Does your CAD/design team know they need to take that space into account?
Do you know how to power the TX1? It's a bit finicky but with the suggestion from one of the 254 mentors we were able to get ours going last year. Check out the white papers we published, they'll give you a good starting point but there is really no definitive guide.