Arduino/Raspberry Pi club

[The Doctor]

This year, my team was planning to put an Arduino on our robot, as a coprocessor. I was curious if there are any teams out there that have used an Arduino-compatible board or single board computer (like the Raspberry Pi)?

[Jay1986]

We used an arduino on our robot to control our LED's but that's it. 118 has a beaglebone black on their robot to control thier LED's.

[wilsonmw04]

We are using a RPi for camera processing.

[The Doctor]

Originally Posted by wilsonmw04

We are using a RPi for camera processing.

How fast was that? We were also thinking of using an NUC for vision processing thinking a RPi would be too slow.

[wilsonmw04]

Originally Posted by The Doctor

How fast was that? We were also thinking of using an NUC for vision processing thinking a RPi would be too slow.

It's fast. at least several frames per second. I don't have specific numbers on it, but it does the job very well. At the beginning of auto mode, we have it look for the two reflective pieces. If it sees them, we drive forward and fire. If it doesn't, we wait 5 seconds and fire.

It sends a signal to the cRio via a DIO.

[Camilo86]

We used to have a micro arduino to control the LEDs... Until the lights burned out

[theCADguy]

We (Team 20) used a beaglebone microprocessor to assist with vision processing. We also have plans to mount LED's controlled by an arduino (We have code written already.), but we don't have enough weight to spare.

[itzaklevi]

We also used a RPi for vision. Worked perfectly, every time. Won us an Innovation in Control award, as well.

[Dunngeon]

We actually have both,

RPI controlled vision, until we stopped using the onboard camera and switched to cheesyvision.

The Arduino controls our lights that flash when we get hit via an onboard gyro.

[z_beeblebrox]

We had an Arduino for lights. It was absolutely critical because it made them blink in a pretty pattern.

[Ben Wolsieffer]

We built a nice little box with an Arduino Micro to control our LED strips, but sadly we ran out of time to put it on robot. We are planning on putting them on for BattleCry though.