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Originally Posted by whytheheckme
I'm still not sure what purpose a full blown PC on the robot serves.
But...
Now I'm super interested. I'm sure you could piece together a small PC with a passive cooling system that can use a KOP fan and run solely off the battery for less than $100 a part. Solid state storage could be as simple as a flash drive that is booted from USB through the BIOS. Those are like..... practically free now-a-days...
Now just to find a reason for all of this....
Jacob |
I can give a good reason.
When we were trying to track the vision tetra we needed a lot of computing power to to image recognition within a 3d space. This was because, while we knew the size and shape of the green panel on the vision tetra, it could be orientated and positioned so that the shape and size would be difficult to interpret.
The best PC board that we could find in the FIRST budget range, at the time, ended up being insuffiecient for our needs ... but it was a great learning experiance for the students anyways.
In the end we were able to track, move towards, and pick up the vision tetra while understanding where we were on the playing field. We just didn't have the computing power to do it and cap within the autonomous timeframe.
With todays small inexpensive industrial PC boards ... it should be possible to do.