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Re: Use of laptop on robot
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Originally Posted by whytheheckme View Post
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...
Another option would be using some kind of an SBC (Single Board Computer). The TS-7200 that EmbeddedArm makes runs Linux and requires no cooling. It does cost $150, but it has a lot amount of processing power (200MHz ARM9 + 8MB RAM). It boots pretty quickly (~3secs with the stock Linux, IIRC), and has serial (TTL), SPI, and GPIOs.

Just another option...

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