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Originally Posted by gblake
Folks - About adding more computing power to an FRC Robot - The last time I looked into them, I thought the Gumstix line offered some attractive options - Blake
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The BeagleBoard is another comparable board that costs about $149. It's a lot cheaper than a Gumstix, though it isn't as small. And it uses the same CPU.
BeagleBoard
The BeagleBoard and the Gumstix are running an OMAP3 chip, which as an ARM Cortex-A8 core in it. They are clocked between 500 Mhz and 600 Mhz CPUs with Cortex-A9's are coming out shortly, and look to be very high performers. They are clocked at about 1 Ghz, and have two cores. I'm personally waiting until I can get my hands on an Cortex-A9 before I invest in any hardware for a similar project.
For those of you interested in learning how to do some AI, I recommend looking over the CS188 lecture slides from Berkeley.
http://inst.eecs.berkeley.edu/~cs188...uncements.html I took the class a semester ago, and learned a lot.