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Re: Using A PS3 With The cRio

I would use a small single-core PC and connect it only to the camera (usb) and Ethernet to the cRio. Nothing else.
Here are its primary tasks:
Get image and find shapes
Relate shapes to objects
Determine angle of shapes and position in space
Filter objects that are invalid (e.g. too far away or whatnot)
Send remaining array of objects to cRio
Many platforms can do that. The cRio can too, but that takes too much power away from everything else.
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