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Re: What will be the next technical growth leap for the average team?

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Originally Posted by JohnSchneider View Post
My guess is that soon, everyone will see the merit of a 4-axis self-controlled robot arm on their robot.
We tried that back in 2007 didn't go well for us either

I believe the real leap in vision processing has come in the form of cheap Android phones that are incredible powerful with great cameras on them, props to 254 for leading the way. The tracking frame-rate and ease of development you can get from building vision in an Android app is way ahead of any other co-processor/on-board vision processing I've seen. I'd love to see some common tools develop around this, the communication between the App and the Rio can be tricky right now.

It would be awesome to see every kit include a powerful $200 Android phone with some standard tools to do vision processing with.
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