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Originally Posted by whytheheckme
I'd love to see a control system in which all of the processing is done on the OI by a laptop...
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I dunno about that completely. I would love to see the OI end of things be done on a laptop and a "custom circuit" you'd use with the laptop. That way you could go REALLY crazy with your user control station, and use things you previously weren't allowed to do or that you couldn't do easily. I can easily imagine being able to perform TONS of pre-processing on the laptop before the data gets sent down to the robot controller, and then perform post-processing before data is sent to the screen (like we do now with a LabVIEW dashboard). Yeah, I can dig that.
I'll go on record saying I don't like the idea of a laptop, however, and let me tell you why. How many times have you installed software onto your [windows] laptop and have it become extremely unstable? Have you ever accidentally dropped your laptop? I can think of about 100 reasons why a laptop is probably worse for these kinds of scenarios just because of reliability. And will the laptop stand up to issues of reuse? <sigh>
But I think it's a cool concept.
-Danny